Bad ideas Quotes · Page 3

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.

— Eddie Izzard

Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

— Charlie Day

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

— Michael R. Burch

“Null Spot the Destroyer still had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend.”

— Bobby Adair

You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad…

— Neal Knox

“Sometimes I have good ideas, sometimes I have bad ideas and sometimes I have colossally bad ideas.”

— Melanie Cellier

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer…

— Daniel Kahneman

I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He's been assuming a…

— Barack Obama

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make…

— Simon Sinek

We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should…

— Mark Powell

In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book…

— Bill Maher

It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up…

— Steven Soderbergh

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims…

— Paul Singer

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

— Frederic Raphael

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's…

— Fran Lebowitz

Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has…

— Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing,…

— Seth Godin

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which…

— Alan Rickman

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on…

— Abhijit Banerjee

“While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain…

— Anonymous

There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think…

— Eugene Mirman

Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something…

— Bram Cohen

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad…

— Michael Moorcock

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

— Edward Boyden

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

— Dan Crenshaw

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is…

— Will Rogers

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

— Karl Popper

“Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.”

— Henning Mankell

Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.

— Andy Borowitz

I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.

— Jeffery Taylor

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

— Steven Pinker

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

— Elizabeth Warren

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

— Steven Spielberg

Sometimes its good to be bad because best memories come from bad ideas!

— Sushan Sharma

I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket.

— Michael Demon Calce

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

— Kellyanne Conway