Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Victor Hugo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Mason, Ken

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

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Jim Hightower

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Sutton, Percy

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.