Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

2.

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

Sutton, Percy

3.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

4.

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

Rorty, Richard

5.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

6.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

7.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

8.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

9.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

10.

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

P. B. Medawar

11.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

12.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

13.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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

15.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

16.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

17.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

18.

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

21.

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

Marquis, Don

22.

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

Williamson, Marianne

23.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

24.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

25.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

26.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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

28.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

30.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

31.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

32.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

33.

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

Avery, Milton

34.

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

Bunche, Ralph

35.

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

36.

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

Hortense Calisher

37.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

38.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

39.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

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

John Steinbeck

44.

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

45.

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

Lynch, David

46.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

48.

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