No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.