An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Buddha

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

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

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Tony Robbins

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mohandas Gandhi

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy