Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Niblack, Griff

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

2.

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

Saunders, Richard

3.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

4.

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

5.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

6.

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

7.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

8.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

9.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

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

11.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

12.

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

13.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

14.

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

Hodges, Job E.

15.

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

Hortense Calisher

16.

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

17.

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

Block, Henry

18.

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

Rorty, Richard

19.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

22.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

23.

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

Simpson, E. L.

24.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

25.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

26.

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

27.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

29.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

30.

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

31.

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

Munro, J. Richard

32.

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.

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Proust, Marcel

35.

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

36.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

37.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

38.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

39.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

41.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

43.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

44.

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

Niblack, Griff

45.

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.

46.

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

Lynch, David

47.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

49.

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