Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Marquis, Don

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

Emile Chartier

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Hyman Rickover

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Avery, Milton

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

William O. Douglas

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Victor Hugo

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rorty, Richard

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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

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

Nelson, George

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Anatole France

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.