Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
Ideas Quotes
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The “taken for granted” is the test of sanity; “what everyone […]
Any innovation threatens the equilibrium of existing organization. In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so that they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses. When one is found, it is assigned to a group for neutralizing […]
An idea is a dangerous thing under the best of circumstances.
