If you have a good idea, people will lend you
20.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, novelist
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be
King.
Mark Van Doren, poet, teacher, writer
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am
satisfied.
Alfred Nobel, chemist, inventor, philanthropist
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds
discuss people.
Adm. Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than
in one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, essayist, physician
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who
contradicts it.
Marcel Proust, writer
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can
be stabbed to death buy a quip and worried to death by a frown on the
right man's brow.
Charles Brower, advertising agency president
I have learnt throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my
mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts
of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky, composer