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Quotations by Subject: Ideas
(Related Subjects: Imagination, Inspiration)
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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.: Sir Frederick G. Banting (1891 - 1941)
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.: Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.: William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980)

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