A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man…

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

— Marcel Proust

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts…

— Marcel Proust

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

— Erwin Schrodinger

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and…

— Katie Kitamura

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Everett Dirksen

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. —Victor Hugo”

— Brian Halligan

We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in…

— Potter Stewart

“Nothing in the world...is so powerful as an idea that tells people exactly what they want to hear.”

— Cecil Adams

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I…

— Bono

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

— Jonathan Groff

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to…

— Stefan Hell

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't…

— Elizabeth Janeway

“Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would…

— Richard Dawkins

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

— Daniel Handler