Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

- Penny, A. Owen

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Lynch, David

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sutton, Percy

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

John Cage

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Anatole France

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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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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 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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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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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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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Twain, Mark

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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Marquis, Don

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.