Best Invention Wisdom
1021 Invention quotes by 720 unique authors
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The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and…
— Edward Abbey
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There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates…
— Richard Avedon
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The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
— John Quincy Adams
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of…
— John F. Kennedy
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The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the…
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and…
— Hillary Clinton
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Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
— John Gresham Machen
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
— Alain Badiou
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of…
— Margery Allingham
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To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It…
— Ernest Hemingway
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This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our…
— George B. Cortelyou
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What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous…
— James E. Faust
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I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick…
— Lionel Blue
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The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made…
— Michel Gondry
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.
— Adolf Hitler
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What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my…
— James Lovelock
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Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it…
— Walter J. Ong
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I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive…
— Unknown Author
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Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.
— David Wallace
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Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come...
— Gautama Buddha
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings…
— Plato
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
— Gerald Vizenor
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