Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

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

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Anatole France

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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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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 control the world.

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

Block, Henry

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Brown, Les

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sutton, Percy

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.