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

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

Nelson, George

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

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

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

James, William

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

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Eliot, George

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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

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Jim Hightower

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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