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

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

John Steinbeck

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Anatole France

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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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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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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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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Avery, Milton

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Proust, Marcel