Best Invents Quotes
96 Invents quotes by 80 unique authors
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Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of…
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
— Michel de Certeau
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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
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Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist...
— Ernest Gellner
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Mankind invents things to fight about.
— Mike Love
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An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back…
— Andre Gide
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Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
— Elbert Hubbard
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I prefer music that invents a universe.
— Matthew Bellamy
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
— Oscar Wilde
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The best propaganda omits rather than invents
— Mason Cooley
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Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly…
— C.S. Lewis
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You try and live your life as normally as possible and if someone invents a rumor that I have two vaginas, so be it. There's…
— Michael Vartan
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Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.
— Glen Hansard
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
— Larry Wall
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In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and,…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
— Alfred Kinsey
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The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The truly original artist invents his own signs.
— Henri Matisse
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Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then…
— Eric Hoffer
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Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and…
— Charles Kingsley
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The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The…
— Wallace Stevens
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from…
— Leo Tolstoy
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