Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas control the world.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emile Chartier

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Eliot, George

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

Jim Hightower

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Berry, John

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds