Motivational Quotes

Ideas

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

- Walter Bagehot

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Koysis, Ted

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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.

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

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

Berry, John

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Canetti, Elias

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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 are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

John Steinbeck

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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

Anatole France