Inventions Quotes

281 Inventions quotes by 226 unique authors

Life is composed of different inventions. — Mikhail Kalashnikov
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. — Lukas Foss
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never… — Leonardo da Vinci
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. — Joseph Lancaster
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.... — Thomas A. Edison
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route… — Arthur Miller
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,… — Anais Nin
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. — Lawrence Durrell
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before,… — Henry Ford
Want is the mistress of invention — Susanna Centlivre
Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers,… — Vivianne Crowley
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These… — Kate Wilhelm
Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are… — Michael Scott
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the… — Jacob Needleman
I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and… — Hugo Ball
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near… — John Updike
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? — Rutherford B. Hayes
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were… — Henry Bessemer
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come… — Lawrence Clark Powell

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