388 quotes found
“For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.”
“An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
“There is no adequate defence except stupidity against the impact of a new idea.”
“Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.”
“Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.”
“Big ideas are so hard to recognize so fragile so easy to kill. Don't forget that all of you who don't have them.”
“Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.”
“An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.”