Top 1200 Invention Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Invention is totally independent of the will.

A weak invention of the Enemy.

Failure is your invention.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Interest is the invention of Satan.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

When you have no money, you need invention.

Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

We should have more invention.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.

Architecture is invention.

You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one? I do not consider that an invention by the son is a slander upon the father; I regard each invention simply as an improvement; and every father should be exceedingly proud of an ingenious son. If Mr. Talmage has a son, it will be impossible for him to honor his father except by differing with him.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

Basketball is a pure invention.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth. When you no longer have to remember which tale of your own past is true and which is an invention, when you know that you are an invention, then is the time to seek out your home. Perhaps only when you have come to understand that can you finally reach home.

I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these crazy experiences and jobs in my life, but I never really write about them because I've already told them as stories to friends. For me, the process of writing is the process of invention. But the hospital story felt told already. There was nothing to discover in the telling of it. The discovery had to be in the form. It wasn't really the unfamiliarity of the form, it was more about a way incorporate invention and how to realize it imaginatively.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

God is Man's greatest invention

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

History is the invention of historians.

Money is only a human invention.

In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

Want is the mistress of invention

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Probably death is the best invention of life.