Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Avery, Milton

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

Berry, John

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

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pauling, Linus

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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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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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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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nelson, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

John Cage

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Sutton, Percy

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Brande, Dorothea