The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones. — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
“The history of education is a seemingly endless parade of “new ideas” that are actually old ideas renamed.” — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck in old ideas. Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad, and they eliminate the guarantee of Medicare. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year; only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths?” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes. — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
We are the future, and we hope to be rather than taking us back to a lot of the old ideas. — Mindy Finn Copy Share Image
Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image