Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Marquis, Don

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Alfred North Whitehead

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Rostand, Jean

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

John Cage

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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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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Victor Hugo

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas... they have the power