Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

2.

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

3.

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

Avery, Milton

4.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

5.

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

Bunche, Ralph

6.

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

Frost, Robert

7.

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

8.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

9.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

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

11.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

12.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

13.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

14.

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

Canetti, Elias

15.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

16.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

17.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

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

20.

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

Emile Chartier

21.

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

22.

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

23.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

24.

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

Lynch, David

25.

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

26.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

27.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

28.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

29.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

30.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

31.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

34.

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

Mason, Ken

35.

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

36.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

37.

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

Pound, Ezra

38.

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

39.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

42.

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

John Cage

43.

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

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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

Saunders, Richard

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

49.

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

Sutton, Percy

50.

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

Edison, Thomas A.