Ingenious Quotes

143 Ingenious quotes by 122 unique authors

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind… — Joseph Wood Krutch
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. — Joseph Lancaster
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose. — Paul Davies
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I… — Shan Sa
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival. — Michael O'Brien
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. — Niklaus Wirth
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. — Ambrose Bierce
We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application. — Richard M. Weaver
An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive. — Michael Medved
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 – unconscious strategies – 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

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