Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marquis, Don

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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

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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 can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim