Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
How did you find me anyway." "For all that I must keep reminding you that I am not a bloodhound, it's true… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead… — Dmitry Medvedev 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
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple. — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things. — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Interviewers have to be work really hard to be good. They¹re more inclined to be bad. Generally, they can go either way,… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better… — George Will Copy Share Image
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