Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

William O. Douglas

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

Howard Aiken

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Berry, John

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

John Cage

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Lynch, David

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Block, Henry

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rorty, Richard