Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Bridgman, P. W.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

12.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

13.

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

14.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

15.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

16.

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

Anatole France

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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

Nelson, George

24.

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

25.

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

Hyman Rickover

26.

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

Pauling, Linus

27.

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

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

33.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

34.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

36.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

38.

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

Proust, Marcel

39.

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

Lynch, David

40.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

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

42.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

43.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

44.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

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

Sutton, Percy

46.

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

47.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

48.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

49.

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.

50.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.