Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  1. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage

  2. Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole. - B.W. Powe

  3. The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of... - John F. Kennedy

  4. The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas — complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. - George F. Kennan

  5. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. - Jonah Lehrer

More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
  1. Love, and you shall be loved.

  2. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  3. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

  4. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  5. It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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