Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Avery, Milton

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Berry, John

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

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

Eliot, George

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Einstein, Albert

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.