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

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

Rorty, Richard

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Lynch, David

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emile Chartier

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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