Top 100 Quotes About Ideas (2025 Update)

1. “Everything begins with an idea.”

— Earl Nightingale

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2. “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.”

— Neil Gaiman

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3. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

— Oscar Wilde

4. “The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

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5. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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6. “If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.”

— Biz Stone

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7. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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8. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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9. “Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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10. “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

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11. “Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.”

— Nolan Bushnell

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12. “Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.”

— Osho

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13. “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”

— Tupac Shakur

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14. “You either act on ideas or set them free. You don’t dwell on them.”

— Casey Neistat

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15. “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

— David Allen

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16. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

— Margaret Fuller

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17. “No sanction can stand against ignited minds.”

— Abdul Kalam

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18. “Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.”

— Joseph Murphy

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19. “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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20. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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21. “Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.”

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

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22. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

— Dr. Seuss

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23. “The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.”

— Myles Munroe

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24. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

— Gloria Steinem

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25. “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

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26. “The best ideas are common property.”

— Seneca

27. “A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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28. “Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.”

— Aaron Swartz

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29. “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

— Walt Disney

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30. “Ideation without execution is delusion.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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31. “When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.”

— Scott Belsky

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32. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

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33. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

— George Orwell

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34. “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

— Voltaire

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35. “Dare to think!”

— Immanuel Kant

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36. “Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

— Sarah J. Maas

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37. “Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.”

— Mark Twain

38. “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

— Oscar Wilde

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39. “Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

— Douglas Adams

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40. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently...”

— Apple Inc.

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41. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

— Josh James

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42. “There is a better way for everything. Find it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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43. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

— Ray Bradbury

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44. “You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?”

— Terry Pratchett

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45. “Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.”

— Peter Thiel

46. “Thoughts become things.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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47. “The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.”

— Plato

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48. “What is now proved was once only imagined.”

— William Blake

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49. “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”

— Robert McKee

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50. “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

— James Allen

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