Invention Quotes

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

~ Elbert Hubbard

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations ofthem yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.

~ Sun Tzu

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all...Which is exactly why you have to ask Why? and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH...

~ Joe Kelly

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

~ Amit Kalantri

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

~ Amit Kalantri

life is a continous journey of transformation

~ Sukant Ratnakar

To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people had all the time but did nothing with it. They died leaving behind no invention or product that they could be remembered for.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

~ Nikola Tesla

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

~ Thomas A. Edison

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

~ L. Frank Baum

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

~ Lewis Thomas

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

~ Christopher Langan

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

~ Joseph Conrad

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

~ Toba Beta

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

~ Archimedes

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may be wrong at first, you can still be right at last.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

~ Duane Michals

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

~ Tennessee Williams

When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and guesses at the meaning that probably belongs to these five words—just as little do we see a tree exactly and completely with reference to leaves, twigs, color, and form; it is so very much easier for us to simply improvise some approximation of a tree. Even in the midst of the strangest experiences we will still do the same: we make up the major part of the experience and can scarcely be forced not to contemplate some event as its inventors. All this means: basically and from time immemorial we are—accustomed to lying. Or to put it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short, more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one knows.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new... partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Only the victor gets to write history, where half of the facts are distorted and the other half invented.

~ Mamur Mustapha

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

~ Thomas More

Ideas are the seeds of invention and actions are the fertilizers.

~ Debasish Mridha

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

~ H.g. Wells

The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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