Firsts Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— William James

If you think my idea is awful, you should say as much. But there is a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the…

— Dan Crenshaw

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent…

— John B. S. Haldane

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

— Henry Heimlich

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been…

— Wilfred Trotter

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

— John Darnielle

Every new idea looks crazy at first.

— Robert Olson

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Every action is the result of an idea...

— Milana May