Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Townsend, Robert

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Berry, John

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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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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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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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

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

Frost, Robert

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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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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Alfred North Whitehead