Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

William O. Douglas

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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 not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Horton, Doug

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

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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Block, Henry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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 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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.