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Ideas

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

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Best Quotes about Ideas

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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.

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.