Able Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

“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

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

— P. Chidambaram

“Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.”

— Dan Brown

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.

— James Carville

“A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will.”

— Duop Chak Wuol

A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true,…

— William James

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

— Peter Diamandis

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

— Carl Sagan