Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Jim Hightower

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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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