Motivational Quotes

Ideas

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

- Caird, Mona

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Townsend, Robert

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Anatole France

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Eliot, George

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

Block, Henry

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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.

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Avery, Milton

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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