Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Ernst, Morris L.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

John Cage

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Twain, Mark

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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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 the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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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

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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 idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Chartier, Alain

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell