Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Ideas

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Horton, Doug

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

John Steinbeck

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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

John Cage

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

Anatole France

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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.

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Frost, Robert

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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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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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 worth nothing if it has no champion.