Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
—Paul Eldridge
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
—Alfred North Whitehead
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
—Anatole France
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
—Carl Schurz
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
—Emile Chartier
An idea is salvation by imagination.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me—shapes and ideas so near to me—so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
—Georgia O'Keeffe
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action—I will write it out.
—Hortense Calisher
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
—Hyman Rickover
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
—J. B. S. Haldane
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
—Jim Hightower
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck
A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
—Ken Hakuta