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 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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Townsend, Robert

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Block, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hugo, Victor

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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 ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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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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

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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