Ingenious Quotes

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

— Isaac Newton

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

— Seth Godin

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

— Ambrose Bierce

“When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

— Edmund Waller

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

— Rex Stout

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

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

— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some…

— Lech Walesa

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in…

— Melinda Gates

Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of…

— William Petty

It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination -…

— Daphne Merkin

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,…

— Alexander Pope

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen…

— Mercy Otis Warren

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

Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through…

— William Cohen

Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They…

— Novalis

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed…

— Anonymous

Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician…

— Humphry Davy

“Some guns were fired to give notice that the departure of the balloon was near. ... Means were used, I am told,…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

— Neil Marcus

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— James Dyson

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

— Christopher Morley

“Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ”

— Ambrose Bierce