ideas Quotes

"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size."

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

We should be thankful not only to those we agree with, but also to those who have simpler ideas, because they still help us develop our thinking.

"A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience."

"The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."

"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one."

"For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope."

"Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex."

“I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or... ...

“Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.”

"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality."