Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

John Cage

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Hugo, Victor

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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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

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Brown, Les

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas control the world.