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“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Do you call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling idea, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. . . . Free from what? Zarathustra does not care about that! But your eye should clearly tell me: free for what?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
Anatole France
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux
“Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on."”
Erma Bombeck
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”
Edward de Bono
“Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.”
Pearl Bailey
“He was a multi-millionaire. Wanna know how he made all of his money? He designed the little diagrams that tell which way to put batteries in.”
Stephen Wright