Ideas

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. – George Bernard Shaw

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. – Victor Hugo

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. – Elbert Hubbard

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

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. – Pablo Picasso

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. – Bern Williams

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. – Elbert Hubbard

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. – José Marti, letter, 1890

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. – Linus Pauling

Drawing is putting a line round an idea. – Henri Matisse

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. – Mark Amidon

Labor gives birth to ideas. – Jim Rohn

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea: by the combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware. – Francis A. Cartier

No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you. – Author Unknown

Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. – Owen Laughlin

Ideas corrode the international fences. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. – Emile Chartier

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. – Anais Nin