Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Ideas

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Frost, Robert

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

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Pauling, Linus

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Williamson, Marianne

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Avery, Milton

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

Everson, Ray D.

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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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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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.