Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Pound, Ezra

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Anatole France

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hugo, Victor

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Frost, Robert

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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