Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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

Berry, John

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Simpson, E. L.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

John Cage

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

Horton, Doug

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

Saunders, Richard

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Twain, Mark

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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