The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Ideas Quotes
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 […]
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
