
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)
The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)
Daniel T. Gilbert (2007) in: John Brockman. What is your dangerous idea?: today's leading thinkers on the unthinkable. Harper Perennial, 2007, p. 42
The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne (1991), edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, p. 700
“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.”
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.”
Propos sur le Religion no. 74 (1938), under the pen name Alain.
Alternate translation: “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.” IZQuotes https://izquotes.com/quote/%C3%A9mile-chartier/nothing-is-more-dangerous-than-an-idea-when-you-have-only-one-idea-390165 (retrieved 10/30/18).
“All told it is a new world. It calls for new ideas. In Canada it calls for a New Party.”
Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 83