Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Eliot, George

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Marquis, Don

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hyman Rickover

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Anatole France

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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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 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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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert