There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is… — Joe Kelly Copy Share Image
Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Touring is the best invention of all time, so if I have to suffer a little bit of payback for having all… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things,… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected… — Samuel D. Warren Copy Share Image
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image