Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rorty, Richard

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

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

John Cage

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Townsend, Robert

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Anatole France

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Hector Berlioz

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Simpson, E. L.

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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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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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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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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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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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.