Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Brown, Les

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Chartier, Alain

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Sutton, Percy

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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 ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Emile Chartier

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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