Ingenious Quotes

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. — Ambrose Bierce
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. — Ambrose Bierce
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man… — Ambrose Bierce
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. — Arthur Helps
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity. — Joseph Wood Krutch
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed… — Charles Caleb Colton
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would… — Jonathan Swift
Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of… — Humphry Davy
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human… — Ambrose Bierce
Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity'...Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live. — Neil Marcus
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow… — William V. Shannon
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from… — Robert Fulton

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