Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emile Chartier

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

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

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.

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

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lynch, David

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.