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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rostand, Jean

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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 not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry