Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

3.

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

James, William

4.

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.

5.

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

Pauling, Linus

6.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

7.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

8.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

9.

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

Canetti, Elias

10.

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

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

12.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

13.

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

14.

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

Rorty, Richard

15.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

16.

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

Victor Hugo

17.

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

18.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

19.

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

Jim Hightower

20.

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

Mann, Thomas

21.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

22.

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

23.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

29.

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

Avery, Milton

30.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

33.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

34.

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

35.

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

Penny, A. Owen

36.

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

Everson, Ray D.

37.

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

Simpson, E. L.

38.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

39.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

William O. Douglas

41.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

42.

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

43.

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

Maritain, Jacques

44.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

45.

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

Lynch, David

46.

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