Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Niblack, Griff

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Harris, Sidney J.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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

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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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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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Penny, A. Owen

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

P. B. Medawar

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proust, Marcel

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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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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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

John Steinbeck

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds