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  • The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. -- Lewis Black
  • Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas. -- Christian Audigier
  • You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas. -- John McTiernan
  • I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate. -- Steven Pinker
  • As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. -- Frederic Raphael
  • Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing. -- Ben Horowitz
  • In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas. -- Daniel Kahneman
  • In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas. -- Isaac
  • You can never discard too many bad ideas. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • I got some bad ideas in my head. -- Robert De Niro
  • All of my bad ideas were always my best. -- Dominic Riccitello
  • The only bad ideas are the ones never tried. -- Michael Buckley
  • Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas. -- Sam Harris
  • Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences. -- George Weigel
  • Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free. -- Douglas Horton
  • Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups -- Paul Krugman
  • The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam. -- Willie Robertson
  • Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. -- Joshua Schachter
  • Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing. -- Salman Rushdie
  • It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones. -- Charlie Munger
  • New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. -- Steven Spielberg
  • Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down. -- Megan Smith
  • There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself. -- Michael R. Burch
  • Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them. -- Seth Godin
  • Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
  • You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones. -- Seth Godin
  • Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality. -- Dick Armey
  • The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas. -- Lewis Black
  • The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time. -- Ben Horowitz
  • A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them. -- Edward Boyden
  • Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in. -- Henning Mankell
  • To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art. -- Vaclav Havel
  • Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. -- Linus Pauling
  • Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. -- Julia Cameron
  • The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones. -- Alain de Botton
  • Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn. -- Rashida Jones
  • The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around. -- Stephen King
  • Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas. -- Dean Williams
  • Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas; every bad moment gives them lessons. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me. -- Holly Black
  • I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. -- Michael Moorcock
  • It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world â?? in the form of bad ideas. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas. -- Seth Godin
  • Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. -- Anthony Daniels
  • Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self. -- Eleanor Brown
  • The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. -- H. L. Mencken
  • After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas. -- Seth Godin
  • Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones? -- Will Rogers
  • When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time. -- David Mamet
  • We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones -- Barry McCaffrey
  • Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them. -- Slavoj Žižek
  • I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson -- Aaron Allston
  • We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of NO ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of BAD ideas. -- Lewis Black
  • We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better. -- Simon Sinek
  • The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. -- Stephen Neill
  • [David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones. -- Linus Pauling
  • In America, youâ??re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to Godâ??s big book of bad ideas. -- Bill Maher
  • I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! -- Judy Blume
  • Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous. -- Jonathan Alter
  • Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style. -- Dean M. Schroeder
  • When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. -- Voltaire
  • The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies- two ideas that on good days I believe wholeheartedly and on bad days I denounce as a bunch of bull. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
  • It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas. -- Sean Hannity
  • Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded. -- Jeff Bezos
  • A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around. -- Stephen King
  • The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one. -- Seth Godin
  • The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious. -- Narendra Modi
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