Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Eureka! I've got it.

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

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. -

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Ideas... they have the power…

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

What you need is an idea.

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

But how shall I get ideas? "Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

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

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.