Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

- Young

Best Quotes about Ideas

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Cotvos

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

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.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Anatole France

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Eliot, George

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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

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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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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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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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

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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

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes