Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

We can invent only with memory. — Alphonse Karr
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. — Elias Canetti
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. — William Shakespeare
The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo. — Seth Godin
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. — Elbert Hubbard
Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play. — Howard Bloom
We invent what we love and what we fear. — John Irving
There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What some people invent the rest enlarge. — Jonathan Swift
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. — Charles Caleb Colton
We must use what we have to invent what we desire. — Adrienne Rich
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. — Anne Sullivan Macy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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