Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly~Anuj Somany — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and… — Ralph Lombreglia Copy Share Image
Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
