To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Ideas Quotes
As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it.
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.
