Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Ideas

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hugo, Victor

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Emile Chartier

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Avery, Milton

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Chartier, Alain

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Brown, Les

28.

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

Rorty, Richard

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Eliot, George

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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