Best Invention Sayings
1021 Invention quotes by 720 unique authors
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought.…
— J M Coetzee
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Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.
— Mary Parker Follett
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
— Ignazio Silone
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Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
— Joseph Conrad
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
— Remy de Gourmont
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
— Bertolt Brecht
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
— Jonathan Swift
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
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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
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Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
— Max Ernst
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Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
— Robert Henri
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Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his…
— Norman Borlaug
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
— Douglas Engelbart
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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn…
— Horace
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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
— Mark Twain
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Necessity, mother of invention.
— William Wycherley
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Necessity, the mother of invention.
— George Farquhar
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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
— David Rockefeller
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
— Carolyn Wells
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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
— Aristotle
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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have…
— Jeff Bezos
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