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

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.

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

Emile Chartier

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Judith Brocklehurst

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Howard Aiken

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Block, Henry

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

Berry, John

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Bunche, Ralph

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

John Cage

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George