Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Avery, Milton

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

Sutton, Percy

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

25.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Victor Hugo

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.