Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing,… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Being able to see and recombine existing assets and know-how in new ways allows us to take an 'ingenious approach to innovation'… — Cathy Engelbert Copy Share Image
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
“English: "Stupidity consists of limitation, madness of limitlessness, and genius of their balance." Česky: „Hloupost spočívá v omezenosti, bláznovství v bezmeznosti a… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“He created us through the long and complex process of Natural and Sexual Selection, which is none other than His ingenious device… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
![“[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.” quote by Charles Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cde/charles-kingsley-1896_curious_a-ll-the-ingenious-men-and-all-the-scien_396115.png)
![“[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put…” quote by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/antonie-van-leeuwenhoek-17943_craving_m-y-work-which-i-ve-done-for-a-long-time_1183072.jpg)
![“Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.” quote by Damon Albarn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adc/damon-albarn-11484_accepting_well-as-resources-inevitably-disappear-i_1038639.png)
