As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
“does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)” — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“True artists do not create to fish for compliments and praises. They create to express the love they have for their craft.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity,… — Randall E. Stross Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
We need to put our faith and trust in the people on the frontlines -- and back it up with real resources.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
Operation Warp Speed should fill us with pride about American prowess and ingenuity. It is a showcase of our scientific, military and… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it.… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Baseball is beautiful…the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity. — Bowie Kuhn Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. — Max Born Copy Share Image
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young,… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find. — Bob Burg Copy Share Image
