Contention Quote by Carl Sagan

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you…

— Kevin O'Leary

“An idea meritocracy requires people to do three things: 1) Put their honest thoughts on the table for everyone to see, 2) Have thoughtful…

— Ray Dalio

To have an idea meritocracy, one needs to do three things. First, they have to put their honest thoughts on the table, for everyone…

— Ray Dalio

Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to…

— Shigeo Shingo

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of…

— John Thune

There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief…

— Mitch Kapor

The idea that we should be open to all ideas, is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

— Anonymous

“Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.”

— Scott Adams

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

— Oscar Wilde

“the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.”

— Oscar Wilde

“One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to…

— Chamfort

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the…

— Nicolas Chamfort