Idea Quotes

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas.

I've only ever had one.

Ideas are like fish.

If you want to catch little fish,

you can stay in the shallow water.

But if you want to catch the big fish,

you’ve got to go deeper.

Ideally a book would have no order to it,

and the reader would have to discover his own.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied

by lip service to an ideal.

The mind,

once stretched by a new idea,

never returns to its original dimensions.

A man’s mind,

stretched by a new idea,

never regains its original size.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason,

but of imagination.

In all my years of baseball,

I have always expected to be traded.

I never liked the idea.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple,

and may, as a rule,

be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

That deep emotional conviction of

the presence of a superior reasoning power,

which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe,

forms my idea of God.

I keep my ideals,

because in spite of everything

I still believe that people are really good at heart.

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals,

they seem so absurd and impractical.

Yet I cling to them.

The idea is not to win.

Our duty is to encourage every one 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.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives.

Good friends,

good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Everything was so new

the whole idea of going into space was new and daring.

There were no textbooks,

so we had to write them.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this.

It was just a day like any other day.

The only thing that made it significant was that

the masses of the people joined in.