An idea is a dangerous thing under the best of circumstances.
Ideas Quotes
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.
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
If we are to succeed in the great struggle of ideas that is under way, we must first of all know what we believe. We must also become clear in our own minds as to what it is that we want to preserve.
Remember: if an idea fits on a bumper sticker, it’s seldom terribly thoughtful.
