Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Lynch, David

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emile Chartier

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Niblack, Griff

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Eliot, George

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

Chartier, Alain

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.