Here is my idea. Let’s make a collection of proverbs and quotes about ideas.
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All great ideas are dangerous.Oscar Wilde
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.Stephen Hawking
I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.Richard Dawkins
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John Steinbeck
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.Lauren Myracle
If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.Raymond Inmon
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
In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.Konrad Lorenz
Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.Mick Jagger
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.(unknown author)
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.Oprah Winfrey
No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.Stephen Hawking
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.Thomas Mann
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.Albert Einstein
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.Bruce Lee
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvy
The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.Andy Dunn
The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.Irvine Welsh
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.Carl Sagan
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.Alfred Whitney Griswold
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The thinkers of the Enlightenment sought a new understanding of the human condition. The era was a cornucopia of ideas, some of them contradictory, but four themes tie them together: reason, science, humanism, and progress.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.Susan Cain
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.Rowan Atkinson
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.Daniel Kahneman
