Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Victor Hugo

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Anatole France

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Lynch, David

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Canetti, Elias

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Avery, Milton

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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

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Horton, Doug

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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