Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

- Fitzgerald, Penelope

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Jim Hightower

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Berry, John

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

William O. Douglas

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Emile Chartier

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

Anatole France

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Townsend, Robert

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Saunders, Richard

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Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Twain, Mark

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

John Cage

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.