Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Everson, Ray D.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Emile Chartier

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Horton, Doug

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

Block, Henry

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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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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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Hugo, Victor

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bunche, Ralph

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett