Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rorty, Richard

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Block, Henry

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

Frost, Robert

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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

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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