Man’s fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Ideas Quotes
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you’re having a good idea but it’s just eggs hatching.
Where do you get your crazy ideas?” asked the gentleman twenty rows back, the first question in the second hour of the lecture. There was a mass low chuckle from the couple-thousand people in the Civic Auditorium… he was not the only one curious about that… For the moment I had walked to the footlights […]
A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine… ‘Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned.’ That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. (U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, at Iran-Contra Hearings, 1987)
