Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Bunche, Ralph

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William O. Douglas

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Twain, Mark

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

Frost, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Eliot, George

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Maritain, Jacques

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Howard Aiken

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

Anatole France

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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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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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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Brown, Les