Motivational Quotes

Ideas

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

- Caird, Mona

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hector Berlioz

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Berry, John

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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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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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Sutton, Percy

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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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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 a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

Disraeli, Benjamin