Top 100 Invention Quotes
#2. The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Henry George
#3. Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce
#4. Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
Plato
#6. Mother Nature's no dingbat. She didn't package the good stuff with bad stuff so she could watch us struggle for thousands of years until the invention of Egg Beaters.
Liz Wolfe
#7. Here is individual responsibility and the invention of conscience. You can if you will but it is up to you. This little story(from the Bible)turns out to be one of the most profound in the world. I always felt it was,but now I know it is.
John Steinbeck
#8. I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Martin Luther
#9. This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates.
Carole Maso
#10. Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.
Tim Wu
#12. But the thing is, slavery's not a new invention. And solitary confinement - did you know, in America we've got more than twenty-five thousand prisoners in isolation cells?
Emma Donoghue
#13. Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
William Goldman
#14. By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.
Ron Conway
#15. We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung
#16. I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.
Joseph Addison
#17. It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.
Carl Sagan
#18. Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away, and Jobs would figure out how to make it user-friendly, put it together in a package, market it, and make a few bucks.
Walter Isaacson
#19. Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
William Blake
#20. If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
Arthur C. Clarke
#21. We have nothing but a history of our own invention to support this view. It suits us to believe it. It allows us to mistreat them, but convenience is not truth.
Bernard Beckett
#22. The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.
John Calvin
#23. The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
Voltaire
#24. The time before our bodies were upgraded to sync with the amazing invention called the Dreamscape. Thirty-eight years ago, people actually had to fall asleep on their own, and sometimes, they would toss and turn for hours.
Shannon Duffy
#25. The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
Thomas Jefferson
#26. There is a great deal at stake here, many writers fight this battle and most lose it. what is at stake for the writer? freedom of invention, freedom to tell the truth, in all its particulars, freedom to imagine new structures.
Andrea Dworkin
#27. For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
Charles Babbage
#28. Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.
Philip Gourevitch
#30. The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Demetri Martin
#31. I checked out the wine. Screw cap. The greatest invention since fire.
Janet Evanovich
#32. Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
Vanna Bonta
#34. ... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#35. Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
Alison Gopnik
#36. Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.
Jonathan Swift
#37. I think crossing into the digital age is the big move for the industry. I think it will be the biggest thing that's happened while I've been making movies. I equate it to the invention of color or sound, and I don't see any other major technical process coming along and changing that.
George Lucas
#38. Language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.
Fereidoon Yazdi
#39. Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#40. Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God's original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration, his intimate design and love-dream.
Francois Du Toit
#41. In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#42. Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough ... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.
James Carroll
#43. There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
Agnes Repplier
#44. I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#45. It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Joseph Haydn
#46. The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure ... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.
Michel Foucault
#47. His only real financial failure came at the age of thirteen when, in an uncharacteristic error of judgement, he invested £200,000 of his own savings in wooden socks, an invention that never caught on as he had hoped.
Mark Jackman
#48. Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
Ben Jonson
#49. An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
#51. The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Daniel Webster
#52. When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
Jamais Cascio
#53. Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
Whitney M. Young
#54. Because, you see, if the man were an invention - a fabrication - how much easier to make him disappear!
Agatha Christie
#55. You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.
CRICHTON Michael
#56. Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you
the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
Seth Godin
#57. Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.
William Blake
#58. I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.
Alex Chiu
#59. In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#60. pooping is god's greatest invention
Me
#61. A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
Nicky Wire
#62. They hate women," Moore said. "Serial killers are the zenith of misogyny." "No, Mr. Moore, that would be the invention of the corset,
Madeline Ashby
#63. As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
#64. Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
Greil Marcus
#65. Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.
Henry Ford
#67. In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain Badiou
#68. I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet
and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.
William John Locke
#69. Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I get bored and impatient. With Zumba, you're dancing, you're moving your hips. So much fun.
Robin Wright
#70. Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.
Joseph Jastrow
#71. Jules Breton has spoken of the history of his life as being at the same time the genesis of his art. This is true of Nikola Tesla's evolution. His bent toward invention we may surely trace to his mother, who, as the wife of an eloquent clergyman in the Greek Church, made
Nikola Tesla
#72. The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.
Annie Dillard
#74. Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!
Ellen Kushner
#75. Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
#76. A secret control slip is a wonderful invention. It sculpts and lifts the bum and smooths the hips.
Marie Helvin
#77. We use the metaphor of waves that rise and fall in societies, perhaps forgetting that the actual waves of the ocean are purely opportunistic, small irregularities in water that, snagging a fortunate gust, rise and break like monsters, for no greater cause than their own accidental invention.
Adam Gopnik
#78. Why may the crinoline be justly regarded as a social invention? Because it enables us to see more of our friends." Sir William Hardman
Patricia Anderson
#79. An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.
Peter Farb
#80. the term "Land of Israel" was a later Christian and rabbinical invention that was theological, and by no means political in nature. Indeed, we can cautiously posit that the name first appeared in the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew.
Shlomo Sand
#81. We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.
William McDonough
#82. It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form.
Michel Foucault
#83. Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Douglas Coupland
#84. Love is the Creator's greatest invention and, as St. Ambrose said, that is especially true when our entire spirit and body are involved in this extraordinary rite, which is after all the rite of our own birth and of our descent.
Dario Fo
#85. Every significant invention must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
Edwin H. Land
#86. As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs ...
Marian Keyes
#87. So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.
Karen Chance
#88. Entrepreneurs are favored in neoliberal contexts because they prize ingenuity, self-invention, adaptation, dispensing with establishment hierarchies, and self-mastery. Church planting can be read as a religious incarnation of late modernity's entrepreneurial disposition.
James S Bielo
#89. If necessity is the Mother of Invention, than adversity must surely be the Father of Re-invention.
Johnny Flora
#90. But each poetic world is not a pure invention, it is a possibility of nature.
Imagination is itself immanent in the real. It is not a state. It is human existence itself.
Gaston Bachelard
#91. Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
Nicholson Baker
#92. Grownups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grownups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it.
Gunter Grass
#93. To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
Felice Picano
#94. Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;
Aldous Huxley
#95. For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.
Plato
#96. He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention.
Mervyn Peake
#97. We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
Ryan Lilly
#98. Mr. Cruncher ... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.
Charles Dickens
#99. Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,
Diana Vreeland
#100. We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
John Keats
