Ingenious Quotes · Page 2

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

— Neil Marcus

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

— James Dyson

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“While intellect might make a man ingenious, it is passion that keeps genius on its feet.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

— Murray Rothbard

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

— George Jean Nathan

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

— Karl Rove

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

— Henry Fielding

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

— Roger Rosenblatt

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

— Homer

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“English: "Stupidity consists of limitation, madness of limitlessness, and genius of their balance." Česky: „Hloupost spočívá v omezenosti, bláznovství v bezmeznosti a…

— Sebastián Wortys

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future…

— Theodor Herzl

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he…

— S.M. Stirling

Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more…

— Damon Albarn

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…

— Edgar Allan Poe

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature

— Joseph Addison

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles…

— Henry W. Kendall

What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine…

— Leo Tolstoy

A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…

— G. H. Hardy

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is…

— William Bolitho

England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a…

— Samuel Smiles

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support…

— Edward Abbey

Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish…

— E. O. Wilson

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

— Philip Davies

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude...

— William Butler Yeats

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

— Mary Astor

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by…

— Arthur Melvin Okun

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

— Galileo Galilei

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

— Ambrose Bierce

It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.

— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

— Samuel Johnson

“A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time.”

— Matthew McConaughey

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

— Elizabeth David

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon