Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rorty, Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

Ideas won't work unless you do.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Canetti, Elias

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Berry, John

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Anatole France

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Butler, Samuel

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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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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