Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Ideas

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Rohn, Jim

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

John Cage

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.