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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.