Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Canetti, Elias

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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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.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Victor Hugo

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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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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

P. B. Medawar

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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 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

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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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

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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