Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Marquis, Don

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jim Hightower

16.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brown, Les

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

William O. Douglas

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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 move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn