Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Ideas won't work unless you do.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Robbins, Irvine

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Avery, Milton

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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 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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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