Subject: Intelligence » Ideas

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

(1924 – 2013) American businessman, author & columnist
Ideas Intelligence

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
Education Ideas Intelligence

When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music.

(1924 – 2018) 41st U.S. president
Government Ideas Intelligence Music

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

British clerk of the House of Commons
Ideas Intelligence

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Communication Education Ideas Insults Intelligence Speech

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Ideas

A poem is no place for an idea.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor
Communication Ideas Intelligence Reading/Writing

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.

Émile Chartier (1868 – 1951) French philosopher, journalist & pacifist
Ideas Intelligence

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

(1908 – 1990) English actor
Ideas Intelligence

A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Alcohol Ideas Murphy’s Laws

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Age Ideas

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Family Ideas Intelligence Mothers Situations

Man invented language to satisfy his inner need to complain.

(1935 – ) screenwriter, author, director & producer
Characteristics Communication Ideas Language

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist
Conflict Ideas Intelligence War

When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place

Corollary: After the correction has been found in error, it will be impossible to fit the original quantity back into the equation.

Ideas Intelligence Mistakes Murphy’s Laws

Ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Things

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

A good idea is one that hits the other fellow with a bolt of envy.

Ideas Intelligence

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws