Motivational Quotes

Ideas

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

- Emile Chartier

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Anatole France

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

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

Cotvos

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

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

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Chartier, Alain

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Butler, Samuel

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

John Cage

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Rostand, Jean

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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.