Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy 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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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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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 crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Butler, Samuel

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

John Cage

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Saunders, Richard

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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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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

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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