Ingenious Quotes

143 quotes by 122 authors

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. — Roger Rosenblatt
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around… — Terry Eagleton
Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are. — James Dyson
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were… — Charles Kingsley
Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... — William Butler Yeats
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in… — Paul Gauguin
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes — Isaac Barrow
Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A… — Ludwig von Mises
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. — Kazimir Malevich
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble,… — Erasmus Darwin
Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of… — William Cohen
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and… — Leonardo da Vinci
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had… — Theodor Herzl
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. — James Joyce
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without… — Henry W. Kendall
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and… — Henry A. Kissinger
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. — Christopher Morley

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