Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chartier, Alain

Best Quotes about Ideas

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emile Chartier

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Avery, Milton

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

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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 good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Saunders, Richard

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

P. B. Medawar

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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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... 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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Horton, Doug

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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

Marquis, Don

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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.