Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Anatole France

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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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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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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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horton, Doug

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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