Idea Quotes

Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.

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

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.