Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Ideas

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Koysis, Ted

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

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