Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

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.

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

Anatole France

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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 new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Townsend, Robert

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