Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Proust, Marcel

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

John Steinbeck

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bunche, Ralph

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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