Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Emile Chartier

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Rostand, Jean

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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.

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

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Walter Bagehot

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Emile Chartier