Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Brown, Les

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Frost, Robert

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Emile Chartier

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Judith Brocklehurst