Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

- Bragg, Sir William

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

2.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

3.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

4.

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

Hill, Napoleon

5.

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

Munro, J. Richard

6.

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

7.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

8.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

9.

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

Avery, Milton

10.

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

Saunders, Richard

11.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

12.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

13.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

14.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

15.

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

Hector Berlioz

16.

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

17.

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

Rostand, Jean

18.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

19.

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

Horton, Doug

20.

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

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

24.

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

25.

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

Mann, Thomas

26.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

27.

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

Pound, Ezra

28.

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

29.

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

John Cage

30.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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.

32.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

33.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

34.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

35.

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

Bunche, Ralph

36.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

37.

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

Anatole France

38.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

39.

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

Proust, Marcel

40.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

43.

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

William O. Douglas

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Hugo, Victor

47.

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

Chartier, Alain

48.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

49.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

50.

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