Invention Quotes
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Music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
— Thomas Jefferson
Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses
— Kamila Shamsie
As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs ...
— Marian Keyes
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
— Albert Einstein
It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.
— Christopher Bram
Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.
— Tibullus
It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] — William Shockley
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] — William Shockley
Ideas are the seeds of invention and actions are the fertilizers.
— Debasish Mridha
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know the Arts are the archives of our human history, the wind of invention and the heartbeat of humanity
— Natasha Tsakos
What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down.
— Georges Perec
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show.
— Vsevolod Meyerhold
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I checked out the wine. Screw cap. The greatest invention since fire.
— Janet Evanovich
As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime.
— S. Hussain Zaidi
Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
— Arthur Mellen Wellington
The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.
— Thorsten Heins
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
— Alanna Ubach
Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.
— Amit Kalantri
The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought
— Derrick De Kerckhove
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
— John Quincy Adams
Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.
— Bob Hope
Inventions and purely human institutions.
— Jean Meslier
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.
— Paul Winchell
Necessity, mother of invention.
— William Wycherley
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
— Iain McGilchrist
Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use?
— Jared Diamond
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
— Ignazio Silone
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
— Henri Poincare
After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
— Andrea Pirlo
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.
— Voltaire
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
— Diodorus Siculus
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
— Barry Commoner
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
— Rob Sheffield
The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.
— David Mamet
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
— Nicholson Baker
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
— Richard Steele
But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention.
— Laura Marney
The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.
— Gary Gulman
... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
If I had to point to one invention in my lifetime that separated howling barbarism from civilized existence, it would be coffee.
— Edward W. Robertson
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
— Thomas Paine
Architecture is invention.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Time and oppression are the fathers of rebellious invention.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
Polished air-tight stove (new and deadly invention),
— Mark Twain
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
— Ann Douglas
The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil
— Albert Schweitzer
we must be careful what we do with this gospel, for it is not the invention of men, but the very truth of God.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.
— Hudson Maxim
Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.
— Johann Peter Eckermann
The book is the most technologically advanced invention in the history of humankind.
— Kambiz Mostofizadeh
Interest is the invention of Satan.
— Thomas A. Edison
Discovery's friend is creativity
— Phillip Gary Smith
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
— Frank Herbert
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
— Thomas A. Edison
Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.
— Carlton D. Pearson
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
— Carolyn Wells
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
— William Blake
No bra," he said against her mouth. "Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.
— Larissa Ione
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the most fundamental thing I know about being alive: Everything that lasts is invention followed by tenacious faith.
— Alexander Maksik
The invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes;
— Alexis De Tocqueville
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
— David Hockney
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
— Tanith Lee
There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention ...
— Joshua Reynolds
Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.
— Louis De Bernieres
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
— Varley O'Connor
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.
— Momofuku Ando
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
— Bertolt Brecht
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model ...
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.
— Louisa May Alcott
Creativity is an integral part of our personality.
— Jerzy Vetulani
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
— Seymour Papert
Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.
— William J. Federer
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
— George Wald