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

Ideas won't work unless you do.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

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

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

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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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

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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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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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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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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

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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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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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.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hector Berlioz

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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