Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Block, Henry

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

Emile Chartier

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rorty, Richard

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Avery, Milton

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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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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 is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl