Compelled Quote by Jean Piaget

To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to…

— John H. Lienhard

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

— Robert E. Ornstein

To invent is to discern, to choose.

— Henri Poincare

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

— H. P. Blavatsky

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

— Bill Gates

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something…

— Elif Batuman

We get inspired and we learn new things.

— BeBe Zahara Benet

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

— Douglas Lenat

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

— Flora Lewis

To understand is to invent.

— Jean Piaget