Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
Ideas Quotes
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.
An idea is a dangerous thing under the best of circumstances.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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)
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
