Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Ideas

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Jim Hightower

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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