Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. – Howard Aiken

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out. – Hortense Calisher

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

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

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

The ideas I stand for are not mine.  I borrowed them from Socrates.  I swiped them from Chesterfield.  I stole them from Jesus.  And I put them in a book.  If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? – Dale Carnegie

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. – F Scott Fitzgerald

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. – J. B. S. Haldane

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! – H. L. Mencken

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. – J Arthur Thomson

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible. – Author Unknown

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

An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe it. – Don Marquis

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

An idea whose time has come was waiting there all along. – Carrie Latet

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. – Sir Frederick G. Banting

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. – Hyman Rickover

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

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

A half-baked idea is okay as long as it’s in the oven. – Author Unknown

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half-thought of it ourselves. – Mignon McLaughlin

An original idea.  That can’t be too hard.  The library must be full of them. – Stephen Fry

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. – John Steinbeck

My mind contains many good ideas, but it’s not always easy to squeeze one out. – Ashleigh Brilliant

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

If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it. – Aristotle

If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice. – Tom Stoppard

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