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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
-Howard Aiken
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.
-Henri Alban-Fournier
Libers-propos (1908-14)
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Eureka! I've got it.
-Archimedes
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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
-Hannah Arendt
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A mediocre idea that guarantees enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
-Mary Kay Ash
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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
-Milton Avery
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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
-Richard Bach
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
-Gaston Bachelard
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
-Francis Bacon
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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
-Bernard Baruch
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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -
-Henry Ward Beecher
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New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody
-Sarah Bernhardt
The Art of the Theatre, ch. 3, 1923
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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
-John Berry
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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
-Henry Block
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
-Sir William Bragg
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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
-Dorothea Brande
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It is useless to send armies against ideas.
-George Brandes
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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
-P. W. Bridgman
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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
-Les Brown
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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
-Ron Brown
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
-Ralph Bunche
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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
-Samuel Butler
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An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.
-Samuel Butler
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Books about Ideas
