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"There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
Marcel Proust
"Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history."
Will Durant
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
John Locke
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
Abraham Lincoln
"The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good."
Dwight Eisenhower
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
Sydney Harris
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"
Joseph Stalin
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
Niels Bohr
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
Henry Mencken
"We need men who can dream of things that never were."
John F. Kennedy
"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
Thomas Edison
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
Thomas Edison
"Great ideas originate in the muscles."
Thomas Edison
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
Laurence Peter
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