#ideas

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#better #grow #ideas #into #many

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#dime #dozen #free #good #good ideas

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it? ↗

— Evan Hunter

#been #bother #covered #enough #feel

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere. ↗

— Ian Hunter

#come #far #hardest #idea #ideas

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#daring #ideas #games

Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas. ↗

— John Anderson

#capable #elected #end #good #good ideas

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#ideas #idiots #know #later #nature

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#clouds #continents #entirely #erroneous #formed