Aspect Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really…

— Alfred North Whitehead

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

— Hyman Rickover

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

— Eric Hoffer

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at…

— Andy Rooney

Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is old, exciting, innovative, and new. There are many ideas that are old, exciting, innovative…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative…

— Donald Rumsfeld

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

— William James

“Developing new ideas requires questions and approaches that most people won’t understand initially, which leaves many true innovators at risk of becoming lonely or…

— Grant Lichtman

Most people believe a new idea must be fully baked and ready-for-primetime. That is like saying a newborn child should have a college degree…

— Josh Linkner

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

As a rule, the man who first thinks of a new idea is so much ahead of his time that everyone thinks him silly,…

— Ash Sweeney

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without…

— Robert Grudin