Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

- Young

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

John Cage

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

Horton, Doug

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Maritain, Jacques

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Anatole France

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

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Eliot, George

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Brande, Dorothea

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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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'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

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Avery, Milton

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

William O. Douglas

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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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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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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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