St. Louis Post-Dispatch (30 May 1902); also in Mark Twain : A Life, p. 611
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
“But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.”
Source: War and Peace
“A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
Also reported as "One's mind" instead of "A man's mind", and "can never go back" or "never regains" instead of "never goes back"; most likely properly attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Misattributed
“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.”
“If you are a man of learning, fight in the skull, kill ideas and create new ones.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: If you are a man of learning, fight in the skull, kill ideas and create new ones. God hides in every idea as in every cell of flesh. Smash the idea, set him free! Give him another, a more spacious idea in which to dwell.
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