Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. - Alfred North Whitehead
2. In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. - Francis Darwin
3. When someone begins a new idea and follows through with it, to the benefit of all around them, it is a beautiful thing. - Laury Ravenstein
4. It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside. - Arthur Dove
5. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot
6. Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves. - Andre Gide
7. Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. - Ken Hakuta
8. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage
9. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
10. Ideas are gifts and if you are listening and in a state of awareness you shall find a universe of ideas. - Kathleen Arnason
11. Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. - Mortimer J. Adler
12. Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow. - T. S. Eliot
13. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. - John Vincent
14. Reading plants, nourishes and grows ideas. - William V. Dunning
15. Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world. - George Gardner