The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
Salman Rushdie - Keyword(s): Freedom , Secular , Religion

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold Glasow - Keyword(s): Action

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
Bill Gates - Keyword(s): Ability , Need , Innovation

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Keyword(s): Ability , Intelligence , Time

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
Jimmy Carter - Keyword(s): People , Ability , Power

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
James Dyson - Keyword(s): , Confidence , Ability

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Sam Harris - Keyword(s): Religion , War , Fear

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
Victor Hugo - Keyword(s):

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
Elbert Hubbard - Keyword(s):

No idea or belief should be illegal; conversely, no idea should be so sacred that it legally justifies actions that would otherwise be illegal.
Lawrence M. Krauss - Keyword(s): Belief

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.
Henri Matisse - Keyword(s):

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
Albert Einstein - Keyword(s):

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Chinese Proverb - Keyword(s): , Violence

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Mark Amidon - Keyword(s): , Language

Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn - Keyword(s):

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Keyword(s):

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno - Keyword(s): , Science

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.
Don Marquis - Keyword(s):

We simply do not find anything in the laws of nature that in any way corresponds to ideas of goodness, justice, love, or strife.
Steven Weinberg - Keyword(s): Nature , Justice , Good

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
Bern Williams - Keyword(s):

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo - Keyword(s):

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone - Keyword(s): , Job

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn - Keyword(s):

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein - Keyword(s):

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard - Keyword(s):

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry - Keyword(s):

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
Alain - Keyword(s):

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Catherine O'Hara - Keyword(s): , Night

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw - Keyword(s):

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
Jose Marti - Keyword(s):

Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.
Owen Laughlin - Keyword(s):

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
Leonard Nimoy - Keyword(s): , Health

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin - Keyword(s):

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.
Leonard Nimoy - Keyword(s): , Photography

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken - Keyword(s):

If ideas are strong they can stand criticism.
Salman Rushdie - Keyword(s):

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Keyword(s):

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half-thought of it ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin - Keyword(s):

Human beings have rights and are entitled to respect; ideas, books and beliefs don’t and aren’t.
Ali A. Rizvi - Keyword(s): Humankind , Rights , Respect

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.
Ashleigh Brilliant - Keyword(s):

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Michael Leboeuf - Keyword(s):

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie - Keyword(s):

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell - Keyword(s):

A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso - Keyword(s):

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.
Linus Pauling - Keyword(s):

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea: by the combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
Francis A. Cartier - Keyword(s):

No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Emile Chartier - Keyword(s):