Top 100 Quotes About Ideas (2025 Update)
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51. “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”

— Edwin H. Land

52. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

— Robin Williams

53. “The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

54. “Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”

— Ayn Rand

55. “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. “Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.”

— Richard P. Feynman

57. “The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become.”

— James Allen

58. “It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.”

— Daymond John

59. “I don’t want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.”

— Will Smith

60. “Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.”

— Charlie Munger

61. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

— George Bernard Shaw

62. “Ideas without action are useless.”

— Helen Keller

63. “Ideas come from curiosity.”

— Walt Disney

64. “Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.”

— Malcolm X

65. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

— William Golding

66. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

— Scott Belsky

67. “A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.”

— Nikola Tesla

68. “Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.”

— John Doerr

69. “Poor minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

70. “Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.”

— Abdul Kalam

71. “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

72. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

— Nikola Tesla

73. “Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

74. “One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.”

— Tim Ferriss

75. “A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

76. “Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly.”

— Napoleon

77. “To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.”

— Derek Sivers

78. “Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

79. “Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”

— Josh Billings

80. “Ideas are bulletproof.”

— Alan Moore

81. “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

82. “The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.”

— Nikola Tesla

83. “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

— Marie Curie

84. “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”

— Mary Kay Ash

85. “Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”

— Bruce Lee

86. “Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”

— Scott Adams

87. “Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”

— Ernest Hemingway

88. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”

— Bruce Lee

89. “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”

— Paul Farmer

90. “Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

91. “People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

92. “Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.”

— Oswald Chambers

93. “Ideas do not exist separately from language.”

— Karl Marx

94. “The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.”

— Les Brown

95. “The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

— Carl Sagan

96. “Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

— Cheryl Strayed

97. “The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong – just a sense of open heart and open mind.”

— Pema Chödrön

98. “My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive inside all of you. I always knew that, and I think you did too. Because it is not a band- it is an idea.”

— Gerard Way

99. “Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.”

— Frida Kahlo

100. “It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.”

— George A. Sheehan