Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Lynch, David

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Victor Hugo

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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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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Maritain, Jacques

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

William O. Douglas