Arendt Hannah 1906-1975

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Auden W.H. 1907-1973

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - I'm sorry, no longer', ‘I'm sorry, not yet.'

Bentley Eric

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and, instead of genuine ideas, Bright Ideas.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

Notebooks

Our ideas. They are for the most part like bad sixpences and we spend our lives in trying to pass them on one another.

Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

De Bono Edward

The Use of Lateral Thinking [foreword]

Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which ... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of ... the term ‘lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this other sort of thinking; ‘vertical thinking' is used to donote the conventional logical process.

Drucker Peter

Along this tree
From root to crown
Ideas flow up
And vetoes down.

Edison Thomas Alva 1847-1931

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

Elliott Jr. John

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

Faguet Émile 1847-1916

(of Voltaire's philosophy)

A chaos of clear ideas.

Fitzgerald F. Scott 1896-1940

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward.
They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Gourmont Rémy de 1858-1915

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Montherlant Henri de 1896-1972

Great ideas are not charitable.

Repplier Agnes 1858-1950

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

Smith Sydney 1771-1845

What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?

Sterne Laurence 1713-1768

A man cannot dress, without his ideas get clothed at the same time.

Turgenev Ivan 1818-1823

Fathers and Sons

I share no one's ideas. I have my own.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Vigny Alfred de 1797-1863

La Bouteille à la mer

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.

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