Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Trotsky, Leon

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Picasso, Pablo

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

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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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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

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Berry, John

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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 not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Hugo, Victor

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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What you need is an idea.