Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Ideas

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

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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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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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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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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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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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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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 ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al