Ingenuity Quotes

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The question of how the ebb and flow of a highly developed mind can be catered to by a physical brain, and the related question… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. — George D. Prentice
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic… — Chauncey Guy Suits
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply… — William C. Menninger
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to… — Isaac Asimov
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. — Winston Churchill
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… — C. D. Broad
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague… — Bernard Bolzano
That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit. — William J. Clinton
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the… — Julia Ward Howe
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity. — Barack Obama
It took thrift and savings, together with tremendous character and vision, to make our nation what it is today. And it will take thrift and… — John Wesley Snyder
If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to… — Paul Hawken
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe
The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of… — Edgar Allan Poe
Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the… — Cus D'Amato
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing… — Lahiri Mahasaya

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