The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
Ideas Quotes
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
One has to dismount from an idea, and get into the saddle again, at every parenthesis.
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence, it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been divided as fools and madmen.
Ideas are living things, not carcasses of prior thought.
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
