Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Eliot, George

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

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

Simpson, E. L.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Munro, J. Richard

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pound, Ezra

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Saunders, Richard

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Anatole France

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.