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Ideas

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

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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

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Ernst, Morris L.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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.

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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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

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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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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's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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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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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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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lynch, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marquis, Don

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

Anatole France

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Berry, John

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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