Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- William O. Douglas

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Koysis, Ted

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

William O. Douglas

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

Frost, Robert

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

Lynch, David

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Horton, Doug

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Avery, Milton

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Victor Hugo

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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

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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.