Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Ideas

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

John Cage

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

Bridgman, P. W.

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Simpson, E. L.

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

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Koysis, Ted

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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 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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Rostand, Jean