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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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Best Quotes about Ideas

1.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover

2.
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

3.
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

4.
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

5.
They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Einstein, Albert

6.
An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

7.
But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!
Marden, Orison Swett

8.
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

9.
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

10.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

11.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
James, Henry

12.
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartier

13.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Proust, Marcel

14.
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

15.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Disraeli, Benjamin

16.
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

17.
If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.
Niblack, Griff

18.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Forster, Edward M.

19.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Hubbard, Elbert

20.
A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
Twain, Mark

21.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France

22.
We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
Block, Henry

23.
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Harris, Sidney J.

24.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Bachelard, Gaston

25.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Pauling, Linus

26.
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

27.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

28.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Trotsky, Leon

29.
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
Maritain, Jacques

30.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Gide, Andre

31.
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

32.
Everything begins with an idea.
Nightingale, Earl

33.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

34.
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca

35.
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

36.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

37.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
James, William

38.
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
Young

39.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Williamson, Marianne

40.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Hill, Napoleon

41.
A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.
Judith Brocklehurst

42.
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.
Decter, Midge

43.
Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

44.
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
Caird, Mona

45.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
Bunche, Ralph

46.
Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.
Grinde, Bob

47.
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
Rickover, Hyman G.

48.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Eliot, George

49.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
Corey, Arthur F.

50.
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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