Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bridgman, P. W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Pauling, Linus

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

William O. Douglas

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Canetti, Elias

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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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.

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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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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

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

Marquis, Don

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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 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

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Mann, Thomas

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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

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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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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Rorty, Richard

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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

Mason, Ken

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

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