Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of… — Filippo Brunelleschi Copy Share Image
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“In sum, then, te is the unthinkable ingenuity and creative power of man’s spontaneous and natural functioning–a power which is blocked when… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and… — Les Baxter Copy Share Image
Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing… — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can… — Andreas Capellanus 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
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
“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
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command… — J. Willard Marriott Copy Share Image
If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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