Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Jim Hightower

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Emile Chartier

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Anatole France

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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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Avery, Milton

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De