Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chartier, Alain

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

2.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

3.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

4.

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

5.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

6.

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

Frost, Robert

7.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

8.

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

9.

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

P. B. Medawar

10.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

11.

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

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

14.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

15.

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

16.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

17.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

20.

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

21.

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

22.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

23.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

24.

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

25.

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

Horton, Doug

26.

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

Mann, Thomas

27.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

28.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

Brande, Dorothea

30.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

31.

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

John Cage

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

34.

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

Hyman Rickover

35.

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

36.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

37.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

38.

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.

39.

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