Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. - Edward de Bono
2. Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken
3. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. - Charles Brower
4. Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. - Hannah Arendt
5. College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller
6. Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. - Jim Hightower
7. If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. - Tom Stoppard
8. In a war of ideas, it is the people who get killed. - S. L. Lec
9. The idea is more important than the object. - Damien Hirst
10. Little words never hurt a big idea. - Howard Newton
11. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. - Mark Twain
12. If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts. - Francis Picabia
13. Always think of something new; this helps you forget your last rotten idea. - Seth Frankel
14. 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
15. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck