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

1.

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

Canetti, Elias

2.

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

3.

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

Rorty, Richard

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

8.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

9.

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

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

Anatole France

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

15.

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

James, William

16.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

17.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

18.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

19.

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

Hector Berlioz

20.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

23.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

28.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

29.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

30.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

31.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

Berry, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

36.

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

37.

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

38.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

42.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

45.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

46.

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

47.

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

Bunche, Ralph

48.

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

Koysis, Ted

49.

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

Maritain, Jacques

50.

Ideas won't work unless you do.