Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Bridgman, P. W.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Trotsky, Leon

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Pauling, Linus

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Lynch, David

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

Butler, Samuel

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Horton, Doug

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