Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Victor Hugo

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Rorty, Richard

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Block, Henry

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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Nelson, George

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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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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 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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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 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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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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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

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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