Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Ernst, Morris L.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Pound, Ezra

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Brande, Dorothea

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

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.

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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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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Eliot, George

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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