Ingenious Quotes

143 quotes by 122 authors

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even… — Richard Owen
An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out. — Paul Keres
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense. — Isaac Newton
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were… — Kage Baker
I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I read the poems… — Jack Gilbert
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to… — Jeff Buckley
The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the… — Bruce Lee
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the… — Clyde Tombaugh
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the… — Gottfried Leibniz
Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire. — Elizabeth David
What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the… — Mohsin Hamid
I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies â€“ unconscious strategies â€“ to keep those feelings away. We do a… — Jeanette Winterson
Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos! — Ellen Kushner
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof… — Ambrose Bierce
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth. — Benjamin Disraeli
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does… — Thomas Huxley
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. — Oliver Goldsmith

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