Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

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

Sutton, Percy

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

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Mann, Thomas

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Frost, Robert

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Rostand, Jean

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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