Ingenuity Quotes
194 quotes by 176 authors
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Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was…
— Rod Serling
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Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ...…
— Harold Ramis
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It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
— Max Born
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Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects…
— Donald Knuth
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I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing…
— Dara Torres
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Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as…
— Jesse Bering
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Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.
— J. Willard Marriott
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The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers…
— Annie Besant
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Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
— Douglas McGregor
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The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.
— Charles de Saint-Evremond
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Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards,…
— Thomas Willis
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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
— Julia Ward Howe
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Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little…
— Joseph Sobran
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Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
— Gene Brown
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You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper…
— Alex Steffen
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Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy…
— William Cobbett
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The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic,…
— Joanna Macy
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If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might…
— Mark Frost
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