If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.
It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
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.
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.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.
Poor minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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.
Ideas without action are useless.
Ideas do not exist separately from language.