Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Horton, Doug

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Trotsky, Leon

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Lynch, David

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.