Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Mann, Thomas

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

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Berry, John

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Sutton, Percy

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Cotvos

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Emile Chartier

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jim Hightower

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

John Cage

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rorty, Richard

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Niblack, Griff

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

Hill, Napoleon