Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Hugo, Victor

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Hortense Calisher

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Hector Berlioz

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Niblack, Griff

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pound, Ezra

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Cotvos

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

Anatole France

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Marquis, Don

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

Rorty, Richard

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

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Eliot, George