Ideas

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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes
 

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
 John Locke
 Essay, 1690

I think, therefore I am.
 Rene Descartes
 1637

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
 Alfred North Whitehead
 Dialogues, 1938

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
 Alfred Nobel
 

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
 Robert Browning
 Death in the Desert, 1864

A stand can be made against an invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
 Victor Hugo
 History of a Crime, 1877

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea you have.
 Emile Chartier
 1938

General notions are generally wrong.
 Lady Mary Montagu
 Letters, 1710

What was once thought can never be unthought.
 Friedrich Durrenmatt
 The Physicists, 1962

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
 Jean Genet
 The Blacks, 1959

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
 George Orwell
 1984, 1948

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

To change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
 Marcus Aurelius
 Meditations, -100

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
 Medgar Evers
 

You see things, and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
 G B Shaw
 Back to Methuselah, 1921

See Also Imagination

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