Quotes about Ideas

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

These half-baked, right-in-the-middle-of-something-else new ideas lead to half-finished, abandoned projects that litter the landscape and zap morale.