Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

John Cage

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Simpson, E. L.

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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Frost, Robert

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting