Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Proust, Marcel

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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.

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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 idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Trotsky, Leon

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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 dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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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

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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Eliot, George

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

Anatole France