A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
Ideas Quotes
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
At the moment it’s just a Notion, but with a bit of backing I think I could turn it into a Concept, and then an Idea.
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the […]
(John) Sparrow had no interest in ideas. Presented with any problem, his acute mind would unerringly light on the outer periphery, there to play with some marginal triviality.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
