Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Emile Chartier

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Berry, John

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

John Cage

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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 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

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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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

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

Avery, Milton

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Samuel Goldwyn