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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Einstein, Albert

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Rorty, Richard

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Avery, Milton

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

Munro, J. Richard

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Williamson, Marianne