Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Anatole France

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Hyman Rickover

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Rorty, Richard

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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