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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some… — Lech Walesa 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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner;… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are… — Michael Pollan 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen… — L. J. Smith 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
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
To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and… — Michael Healy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to… — John Scalzi 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 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)
![“['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation…” quote by Rob Lowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/rob-lowe-855_assassination_john-f-kennedy-movie-is-based-on-a-massi_1722367.jpg)
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