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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
Mark Twain
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
Nicolas Chamfort
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
William James
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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Robert Frost
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso
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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
José Ortega y Gasset
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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.
Richard Bach
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis
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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Don Marquis
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
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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!
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale
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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Les Brown
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Doug Horton
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Edison
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
Joseph Conrad
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Antoine de Rivarol
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster
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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.
Gaston Bachelard
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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.
Gaston Bachelard
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn
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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Arnold H. Glasgow
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Leon Trotsky
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Ideas won't work unless you do.
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Ideas... they have the power
Napoleon Hill
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Thomas Mann
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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
Charles Kettering
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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.
Francis Bacon
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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.
Alfred A. Montapert
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Elias Canetti
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes
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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.
André Gide
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn
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Long is the road from conception to completion.
Molière
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.
Robert Townsend
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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.
Søren Kierkegaard
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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.
Robert H. Schuller
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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound
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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
Dorothea Brande
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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Sydney Harris
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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
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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.
Bernard Baruch
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard
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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?
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Wyndham Lewis
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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.
John Maynard Keynes
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas Edison
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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.
Alfred North Whitehead
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.
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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.
Michel Foucault
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
Nicolas Chamfort
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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. --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Victor Hugo
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Albert Einstein
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas Edison
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Jean Rostand
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Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds
Remy de Gourmont
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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. -
Henry Ward Beecher
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We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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