Change Quote by William James

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of…

— Mark Twain

Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.

— Ron Brown

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

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

— Hyman Rickover

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

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

— Thomas More

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

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

— Elias Canetti

All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they…

— Karl Ernst von Baer

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

— Steve Case

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

— Arthur Schopenhauer