Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Jim Hightower

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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

Nelson, George

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Pauling, Linus

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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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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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.

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

Anatole France

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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

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Niblack, Griff

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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

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.