Motivational Quotes

Ideas

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

- Emile Chartier

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Mann, Thomas

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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

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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. 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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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

William O. Douglas

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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

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

Rorty, 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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains 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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert