Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

- Young

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

2.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

3.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

4.

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

Marquis, Don

5.

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

Koysis, Ted

6.

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

Emile Chartier

7.

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

8.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

9.

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

10.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

11.

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

Avery, Milton

12.

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

13.

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

Saunders, Richard

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

16.

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

Chartier, Alain

17.

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

18.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

19.

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

Canetti, Elias

20.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

21.

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

Jim Hightower

22.

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

23.

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

Sutton, Percy

24.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

26.

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

Lynch, David

27.

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

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

31.

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.

32.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

33.

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

Bunche, Ralph

34.

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

Rostand, Jean

35.

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.

36.

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

James, William

37.

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

Hector Berlioz

38.

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

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

41.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

42.

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