One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, 
ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, 
for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. 
	- Henry Miller

We use ideas merely to justify our evil, and speech merely 
to conceal our ideas. 
	- Voltaire

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats 
a strange protein; it rejects it. 
	- P. B. Medawar

Man can only have a certian number of teeth, hairs, and 
ideas. There comes a time when he necessarily loses his 
teeth, his hair, and his ideas. 
	- Voltaire

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose 
time has come.
	- Victor Hugo

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
	– Elizabeth Bowen

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be 
beaten, but they may start a winning game.
	- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me 
purpose, a reason to hang on.
	- Steven Patrick Callahan

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The 
source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is
a liberal education. 
	- Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906 - 1963) US educator, historian

Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge 
is limited, imaginations encircles the world.
	- Albert Einstein

Every idea is an incitement...Eloquence may set fire to reason.
	- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes 
back to its original dimensions.
        - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow 
where only one grew before.
        - Elbert Hubbard

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes 
back to its original dimensions.
        - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave 
men, or they are no better than dreams.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, 
you will have to ram it down their throats. 
        - Howard Aiken

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who 
represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
        - Anthony D'Angelo

I got a lot of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.
        - George Carlin

Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail.
        - Alfred Whitney Griswold


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