Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Walter Bagehot

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hyman Rickover

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Victor Hugo

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Townsend, Robert

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anatole France

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

Rostand, Jean

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie