We Invent Quotes

39 We Invent quotes by 35 unique authors

We invent the past and remember the future. — Isak Dinesen
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for… — Nathan Myhrvold
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always… — Bill Watterson
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which… — Gene Wolfe
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity. — Christopher Paolini
Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. — Siri Hustvedt
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. — Gene Wolfe
We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically.… — S.J. Watson
It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves;… — Julian Barnes
Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother… — John Irving
Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued. — Richard Siken
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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