Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Ideas

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

William O. Douglas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Berry, John

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Proust, Marcel

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Rostand, Jean

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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 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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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.