Certain Quote by Bill Maher

“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." ( The Decider , July 21, 2007)”

— Bill Maher

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

— Fred Wilson

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

— Margaret Heffernan

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

— Nathan Fielder

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

— Robert A. Baker

The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about

— Anonymous

Most people who have ideas, those ideas sit in their head forever until they eventually die.

— Marc Randolph

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

— China Mieville

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing…

— Atle Selberg

If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

— Jim McKelvey