Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Berry, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Anatole France

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Chartier, Alain

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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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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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Avery, Milton

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.