Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Hector Berlioz

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Anatole France

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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 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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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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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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Frost, Robert

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Simpson, E. L.

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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