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Ideas

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

Hugo, Victor

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Picasso, Pablo

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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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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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Twain, Mark

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Berry, John

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rorty, Richard

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Avery, Milton

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Emile Chartier

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Rostand, Jean

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.