Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.