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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
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Best Quotes about Ideas

1.
But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!
Marden, Orison Swett

2.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Hill, Napoleon

3.
Everything begins with an idea.
Nightingale, Earl

4.
Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.
Cotvos

5.
If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.
Niblack, Griff

6.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Edison, Thomas A.

7.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot

8.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Rohn, Jim

9.
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
Oech, Roger Von

10.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France

11.
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca

12.
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

13.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
Chartier, Alain

14.
The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
Rorty, Richard

15.
Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
Gibson, Tobias S.

16.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Horton, Doug

17.
It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
Munro, J. Richard

18.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Whitehead, Alfred North

19.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Disraeli, Benjamin

20.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

21.
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
Young

22.
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

23.
Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.
Grinde, Bob

24.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Carnegie, Dale

25.
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

26.
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

27.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

28.
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
Foucault, Michel

29.
Ideas control the world.
Garfield, James A.

30.
Ideas won't work unless you do.

31.
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

32.
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Glasgow, Arnold H.

33.
I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
Mason, Ken

34.
Ideas too are a life and a world.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

35.
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn

36.
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

37.
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
Rickover, Hyman G.

38.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
Bunche, Ralph

39.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Pound, Ezra

40.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Bridgman, P. W.

41.
If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
Sutton, Percy

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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.

45.
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Rostand, Jean

46.
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.
Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
Penny, A. Owen

48.
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Brown, Les

49.
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

50.
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
Brande, Dorothea


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