We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

                     —Noam Chomsky

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

                            —Leo Burnett

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

                            —Victor Hugo

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

        —Martin Luther King, Jr

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

                            —Mark Twain

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

                      —Emile Chartier

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it original dimension.

       —Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

                 —Charles Kettering

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

                      —John Steinbeck

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

                        —Linus Pauling

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren’t new at all.

                 —Andrew A. Rooney

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

                             —Tom Peters

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

                          —Don Marquis