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

1.

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

Jim Hightower

2.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

3.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

4.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

5.

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

6.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

7.

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

8.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

9.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

10.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

11.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

Pound, Ezra

13.

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

Munro, J. Richard

14.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

15.

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

Hector Berlioz

16.

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

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

18.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

19.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

20.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

21.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

22.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Proust, Marcel

24.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

25.

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

26.

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

Maritain, Jacques

27.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

30.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

35.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

39.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

40.

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

William O. Douglas

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

Rorty, Richard

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Block, Henry

46.

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

47.

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

Sutton, Percy

48.

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

Rostand, Jean

49.

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

Brande, Dorothea

50.

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