Top 335 Ingenuity Quotes & Sayings

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

For me, muscle cars are a tribute to American ingenuity.

Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.

Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.

Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.

There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and ingenuity.