An idea is salvation by imagination.

By Nabil Medawar | Published: August 5, 2008
  • A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission. ~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ~ Harriet Martineau
  • Always keep a window open in your mind for new ideas. ~ Author Unknown
  • Believe in something larger than yourself…. Get involved in some of the big ideas of your time. ~ Barbara Bush
  • Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. ~ Author Unknown
  • Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. ~ Scott Reed
  • Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~ Jim Rohn
  • Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go… ~ The Houston Times
  • Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  • Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and forever. ~ Leon Trotsky
  • It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. ~ Klemens Von Metternich
  • It isn’t easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice. ~ Author Unknown
  • Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You’ve only to reach out and snatch one… ~ Rod McKeun
  • People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. ~ Ezra Pound
  • Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ~ Remy De Gourmont
  • So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. ~ Dorothea Brande
  • Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough. ~ Author Unknown
  • The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~ George Santayana
  • The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. ~ Ezra Pound
  • The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. ~ Dorothy Thompson
  • The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
  • 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
  • To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world that I am able to change it in positive ways. ~ Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. ~ Mark Twain
  • You have to hatch ideas — and then hitch them. ~ Ray D. Everson

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