Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Everson, Ray D.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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.

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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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

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Marquis, Don

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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