Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Ernst, Morris L.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hortense Calisher

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Horton, Doug

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Emile Chartier

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hugo, Victor

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Saunders, Richard

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hector Berlioz