Motivational Quotes

Ideas

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

- Kupferberg, Tuli

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Marquis, Don

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

Chartier, Alain

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

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Nelson, George

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

John Steinbeck

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Sutton, Percy

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Bunche, Ralph