Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Walter Bagehot

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Block, Henry

2.

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

3.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

4.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

5.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

6.

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

Bunche, Ralph

7.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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.

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

Horton, Doug

10.

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

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

13.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

15.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

16.

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

17.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

20.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

21.

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

Williamson, Marianne

22.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

23.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

24.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

25.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

26.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

27.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

28.

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

Townsend, Robert

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

32.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

33.

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

Canetti, Elias

34.

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

Walter Bagehot