Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Judith Brocklehurst

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

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

Lynch, David

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

Mason, Ken

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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

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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

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

Berry, John

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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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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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Niblack, Griff

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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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

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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Avery, Milton