Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

James, William

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Townsend, Robert

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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 have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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