Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marquis, Don

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Pauling, Linus

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Pound, Ezra

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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 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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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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

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Sutton, Percy

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hugo, Victor

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What you need is an idea.