Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

- Wilson, Alexander

Best Quotes about Ideas

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Rohn, Jim

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Sutton, Percy

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

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Cotvos

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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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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Butler, Samuel

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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

Avery, Milton

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