No Idea Quotes

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Aries

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Pain, Passion, Thinking

  "Dialogues on Metaphysics". Book by Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogue III, 1688.

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• No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Ideas, Judgement

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood.

  Erin Hunter

  Pain, Cutting, Blood

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• I have no idea what happens next.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Ideas, Next, Happens

  "Jennifer Byrne Presents", www.abc.net.au. July 31, 2012.

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• Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.

  John Avery

  Opportunity, Ideas, People

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• I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

  Elliott Abrams

  Ideas, Said

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Talking

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.

  Neil Young

  Music, Country, Ideas

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• I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, Important, Investing

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• You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly.
  Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .

  Alex Flinn

  Children, Mean, Ideas

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• You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Fall, First Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thoughtful, Years, Ideas

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

  Michael Eisner

  Taken, School, College

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

  Rory Bremner

  Ideas, People, Impression

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• People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

  Rohit Sharma

  Ideas, People, Want

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• I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

  Harriet Martineau

  Christian, Ideas, Atheism

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.574, Broadview Press

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• Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.

  Kristi Noem

  Government, Ideas, People

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• I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, Listening, Audience

  "Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest - for two minutes'" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2010.

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• I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

  Sylvain Tesson

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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