Subject: Intelligence » Ideas

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
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Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

(1940 – ) computer scientist
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Books are for people who don't have ideas of their own.

(1984 – ) American stand-up comedian
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
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Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist
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A good idea is one that hits the other fellow with a bolt of envy.

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Every great idea has a disadvantage equal to or exceeding the greatness of the idea.

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Education: Forcing abstract ideas into concrete heads.

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Every revolutionary idea – in Science, Politics, Art or whatever – evokes three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the three phrases: 1. It is completely impossible; don't waste my time. 2. It is possible, but it is not worth doing. 3. I said it was a good idea all along.

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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist
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Who’s cruel idea was it to put an “s” in the word “lisp”?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea and that was wrong.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author
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About the only thing you can say for his constipation of ideas is his diarrhea of words.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
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An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

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People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
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I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas; I’m frightened of old ones.

(1912 – 1992) American composer, writer & artist
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All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

(1892 – 1942) American painter
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