Ideas Quotes

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without [necessarily] accepting it.

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I'm passionate about language, the transmission of ideas, and thinking about things.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out, it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.