Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability… — Steve Wozniak
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent… — Aldous Huxley
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes… — James A. Baldwin
... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46 — Gary Hamel
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your… — Umberto Eco
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always… — Bill Watterson
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you… — Paulo Coelho
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and… — Bill Watterson
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. — Maya Angelou
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. — Albert Camus
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills,… — Aldous Huxley
There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have… — Monique Wittig
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing. — Jonathan Safran Foer
How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy. — Saul Bellow
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which… — Gene Wolfe
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them… — Philip Roth
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. — Orson Scott Card
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,… — Samuel Beckett
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent… — Alain Badiou
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As… — Diana Wynne Jones
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy

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