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.

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

John Cage

2.

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

Cotvos

3.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

4.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

5.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

6.

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

Hortense Calisher

7.

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

8.

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

Niblack, Griff

9.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

10.

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

Munro, J. Richard

11.

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

Jim Hightower

12.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

13.

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

14.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

15.

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

Hector Berlioz

16.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

17.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

19.

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

Berry, John

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

Howard Aiken

23.

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

Koysis, Ted

24.

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

25.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Everson, Ray D.

28.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

29.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

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

Marquis, Don

31.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

32.

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

Brande, Dorothea

33.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

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

Avery, Milton

35.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

36.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

37.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Sutton, Percy

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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

Mann, Thomas

42.

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

Chartier, Alain

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

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

46.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Saunders, Richard

50.

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