The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility. — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial… — Louis Daguerre Copy Share Image
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always… — Plato Copy Share Image
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
