All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
Ideas Quotes
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
He objected to ideas only when others had them.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go into the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
Debating her (Ann Coulter) on her ‘ideas’ does about as much good as kicking a retarded puppy.
You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it.
Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
