Quotes
Quotes about Invention
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is trueâbut it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
I don't think necessity is the mother of inventionâinvention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
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.
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They came about by hard work.
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.
Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His mind was great and powerful ... as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.... Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw doubt, but, when once decided, going through his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was the most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known.... He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man ... On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect ... it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great....
