You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
Ideas Quotes
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.
The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant… There are only men who have character and men who lack it.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
