Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Anatole France

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

Pauling, Linus

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Walter Bagehot

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rorty, Richard

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Eliot, George

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bunche, Ralph