Ideas can never be defeated by military force. They can only be defeated by better ideas.
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.
You cannot imprison an idea. You have to fight it with a better idea.
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
A better idea than my own is to listen.
TV tends to laud the person with the perfect one-liner rather than the one with the better idea.
The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.
We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.
