Genius Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Honour Humans Innovation Intelligence Invention Most amazing
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration. — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can’t do at… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image