Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

- Hector Berlioz

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Butler, Samuel

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Eliot, George

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

Twain, Mark

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Chartier, Alain

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies 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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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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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Horton, Doug

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

John Cage

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Keynes, John Maynard