Top 100 Invents Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Invents

#1. Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

#2. Nobody ever invents anything You're inspired and sometimes you can improve.

#3. New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.

Michel De Certeau

#4. The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Jose Saramago

#5. 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

#6. With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.

Sophie Hunger

#7. ...it is the man of the night who invents, the man of the morning is nothing but a scribe.

Francois Augieras

#8. 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, on occasion, invents them.

Jean Giraudoux

#9. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do ... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

Nathan Myhrvold

#11. Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

Alfred Binet

#12. Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#13. You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

Anthony Head

#14. To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Margaret Mead

#15. Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do not matter, so a philosopher may wonder why he invents cases that cannot occur in order to determine what must be the case.

Edward St. Aubyn

#16. 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

#17. Wine invents nothing; it only tattles.

Friedrich Schiller

#18. Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very nature refer to the infinite. This is his glory.

Hermann Weyl

#19. 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 proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

Eric Hoffer

#20. When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

Donald Miller

#21. The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

Marshall McLuhan

#22. Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

Sri Chinmoy

#23. O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night.

Richard Siken

#24. Our imagination it is our greatest ally ... Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

Glen Hansard

#25. Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

Albert Einstein

#26. I prefer music that invents a universe.

Matthew Bellamy

#27. What is the strongest pretext for loving? ... If it is necessary, our atomized consciousness invents love, imagines it or feigns it, but does not live without it, since in the midst of infinite dispersion, love, even if as a pretext , gives us the measure of our loss.

Carlos Fuentes

#28. 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 nothing I can do about it.

Michael Vartan

#29. In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Harold Bloom

#30. Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#31. A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher

#32. The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).

Robert Anton Wilson

#33. It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Oscar Wilde

#34. Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

James Russell Lowell

#35. When writing fantasy
novels, one must be careful what one
invents. For every benefit, there is
usually a drawback.

J.K. Rowling

#36. A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him ... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

Salman Rushdie

#37. 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 am electrical by nature.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#38. To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. Man invents nothing God did not create first.

Mitch Albom

#40. In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

George Bernard Shaw

#41. When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Gary Snyder

#42. I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is no wall and no horror just Transcendental Empty Kissable Milk Light of Everlasting Eternity's true and perfectly empty nature.

Jack Kerouac

#43. Self is.
Self is body and bodily
perception. Self is thought, memory,
belief. Self creates. Self destroys.
Self learns, discovers, becomes.
Self shapes. Self adapts. Self
invents its own reasons for being.
To shape God, shape Self.

Octavia E. Butler

#44. The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#45. No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

#46. The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.

W. Edwards Deming

#47. If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents

Robert Browning

#48. The best propaganda omits rather than invents

Mason Cooley

#49. As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

Gero Miesenbock

#50. It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

Warren Buffett

#51. A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

Michael E. Gerber

#52. And my religious hunger, now invents God
To make them a frame, to fill the void.

Then my silly pious sense of harmony
Loudly rejoices in orderly actuality

But already, my fierce rebellion, the best poet
Calmly sharpens a knife on the stone of my heart.

Rafal Wojaczek

#53. Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action into violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Karen Haber

#54. It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#55. Mankind invents things to fight about.

Mike Love

#56. Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.

Cynthia Ozick

#57. At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

Shel Silverstein

#58. Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Joyce Carol Oates

#59. American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

Will Rogers

#60. Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#61. The truly original artist invents his own signs.

Henri Matisse

#62. People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

John Le Carre

#63. 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 holy as God is holy.

Charles Kingsley

#64. Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Jose Marti

#65. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

Alfred Kinsey

#66. It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

Henri Poincare

#67. Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

Azzedine Alaia

#68. Life is other, always there,
further off, beyond you and
beyond me, always on the horizon,
life which unlives us and makes us strangers,
that invents our face and wears it away

Octavio Paz

#69. MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Ambrose Bierce

#70. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything.

John Steinbeck

#71. A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

William Butler Yeats

#72. What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says 'What will the neighbors think?' A man invents, a parasite says 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God ...

Andrew Ryan

#73. Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#74. Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes.

Christopher Hitchens

#75. Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#76. Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

Thor Heyerdahl

#77. The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.

Norman Douglas

#78. Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Gustave Flaubert

#79. So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#80. When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.

Victor Hugo

#81. To say a scientist is not at all responsible is wrong. But to say that someone who invents a piece of knowledge or technology is responsible for all future uses is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be that binary.

Astro Teller

#82. Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist ...

Ernest Gellner

#83. A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Ernest Hemingway,

#84. 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 on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Andre Gide

#85. Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

Michel De Certeau

#86. True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Victor Cousin

#87. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#88. 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 on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

C.S. Lewis

#89. No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition.

Reginald Fessenden

#90. The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

R.D. Laing

#91. I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

Dave Barry

#92. Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

#93. Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

Geoffrey Wolff

#94. THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

Werner Herzog

#95. Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Margaret Atwood