Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

- Hyman Rickover

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Anatole France

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bunche, Ralph

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Eliot, George

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred 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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Frost, Robert

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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