Invent Quotes
693 quotes by 543 authors
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After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the…
— Bill Gates
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."
— Gore Vidal
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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train…
— Irving Langmuir
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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always…
— Albert Einstein
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The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this…
— George Polya
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The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts…
— Donald Woods Winnicott
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
— Oscar Robertson
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Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it…
— Brother Lawrence
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Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.
— Unknown Author
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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
— Angela Thirkell
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Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.
— Mark Goulston
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When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
— E E Cummings
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Invent a new language anyone can understand.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too…
— John Barth
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