Ingenuity Quotes
194 quotes by 173 authors
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Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman.…
— Wyndham Lewis
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I like challenges that test your ingenuity.
— Colin Baker
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The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path…
— Diana DeGette
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The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.
— Eric Temple Bell
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
— Rene Descartes
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The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to…
— Charles Petzold
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The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in…
— Ben Macintyre
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Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own,…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity,…
— Rachel Carson
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Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at…
— Christiana Figueres
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Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban.
— Andrew Ryan
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A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those…
— James Rickards
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I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against…
— George H. W. Bush
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ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
— William Faulkner
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind…
— Brian Greene
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With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in…
— Jay Inslee
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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like…
— Steve Jobs
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We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
— Sarah Palin
Who Wrote These Ingenuity Quotes
173 authors contributed a total of 194 Ingenuity Quotes, led by these top contributors: