Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chartier, Alain

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

2.

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

John Cage

3.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

4.

The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

8.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

9.

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

10.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

14.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

15.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

16.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

17.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

19.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

21.

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

Victor Hugo

22.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

23.

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

Anatole France

24.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

25.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

26.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

27.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

28.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

29.

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

Mann, Thomas

30.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

31.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

32.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

33.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

34.

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

35.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

36.

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

37.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

38.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

39.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

40.

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

41.

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

Penny, A. Owen

42.

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

Horton, Doug

43.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

44.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

45.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

46.

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

47.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

48.

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

Proust, Marcel

49.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

50.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.