The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.Simon Sinek
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.Voltaire
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.Ricky Gervais
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.Jean-Luc Godard
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.Mary Ritter Beard
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickover
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.George Orwell
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.Howard Aiken
Your success in life will be largely determined by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order.Steven Pinker
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.John Maynard Keynes