If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it.
Ideas Quotes
If it is unlawful to urge that an idea be carried out, is it also unlawful to state it academically and point out its possible merits?
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
Let one thousand flowers bloom.
The proof of an idea is not to be sought in the soundness of the man fathering it, but in the soundness of the idea itself. One asks of a pudding, not if the cook who offers it is a good woman, but if the pudding itself is good.
College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the ground that believing in it is an act of virtue, but also on the ground that doing so is prudent, is both a fool and a knave.
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
