Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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

P. B. Medawar

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Hugo, Victor

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

John Steinbeck

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Emile Chartier

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Marquis, Don

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Rorty, Richard

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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