Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not… — Benoite Groult Copy Share Image
The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better,… — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not… — Ralph W. Gerard Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“[The screw machine] was on the principle of the gauge or sliding lathe now in every workshop throughout the world; the perfection… — David Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever. — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word. — June Millington Copy Share Image
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