Ingenuity Quotes
194 quotes by 173 authors
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The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not…
— John Fowles
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Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to…
— Lisi Harrison
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If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs…
— Maya Angelou
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I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War…
— Howard Zinn
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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
— Veronica Roth
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Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same…
— Veronica Roth
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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity…
— Isaac Newton
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What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet,…
— Andrew Marr
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An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.
— Gretchen Rubin
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Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For…
— Irma S. Rombauer
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Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, helping fuel local commerce. In New York, we have seen firsthand how…
— Nydia Velazquez
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Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.
— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
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When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not…
— Vint Cerf
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The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of…
— Jules Verne
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Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out…
— Max Heindel
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