Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

2.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

3.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

4.

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

5.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

6.

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

Hugo, Victor

7.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

8.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

10.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

11.

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

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

14.

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

15.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

16.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

17.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

18.

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

Hodges, Job E.

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

21.

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

Niblack, Griff

22.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

23.

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

Williamson, Marianne

24.

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

Bunche, Ralph

25.

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.

26.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

29.

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.

30.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

31.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

32.

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

Victor Hugo

33.

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

Munro, J. Richard

34.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

Maritain, Jacques

36.

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

37.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

38.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

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

Marquis, Don

41.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

42.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

43.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

44.

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

45.

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

Hortense Calisher

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.

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

Block, Henry

48.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.