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"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
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
Marcel Proust
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
John Locke
"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
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
Niels Bohr
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"
Joseph Stalin
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
Siddhartha Buddha
"Great ideas originate in the muscles."
Thomas Edison
"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
"There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
Henry Mencken
"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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