Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false.
Ideas Quotes
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, For they will come into being together.
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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 […]
