Bad Ideas Quotes

43 quotes by 36 authors

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. — Frederic Raphael
Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas. — Christian Audigier
When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but… — Christian D. Larson
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. — H. L. Mencken
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time. — Ben Horowitz
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard
Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones? — Will Rogers
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. — Alfred Whitney Griswold
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas. — Daniel Kahneman
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate. — Steven Pinker
The only bad ideas are the ones never tried. — Michael Buckley
It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was… — Justin Cronin
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world â€” in the form of bad ideas. — Kurt Vonnegut
It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me. — Holly Black
If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really… — Ron Paul
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. — Michael Moorcock
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
No matter how hard I try, I just never seem to run out of bad ideas — Hussein Nishah
A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing — John Gardner

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