Ingenious Quotes - Page 7

• Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

  Richard Owen

  Principles, Way, Genocide

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• An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

  Michael Medved

  Moving, Important, Saving

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• Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Truth, Appearance

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.825, Library of America

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• Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

  Henry Fielding

  Proportion, Wells, Traveller

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• To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

  Shan Sa

  War, Clothes, Choices

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• We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Rich, Virtuous

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• It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Courage, Self Confidence, Men

  "The Concept of Irony: With Constant Reference to Socrates". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Collins, "Irony as a Mastered Moment: The Truth of Irony," pt. 2, 1966.

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• Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

  William Petty

  Numbers, People, Bills

  Sir William Petty (1986). “The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

  David Quammen

  Plutonium, Evolution, Culmination

  David Quammen (2014). “Monster Of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.17, Random House

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• I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.

  Richard Cumberland

  Wise, Gratitude, Mean

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• With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophical, Thinking, Rivals

  "Athenaeum Fragments". Book by Friedrich Schlegel (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Nazism, Results, Contribution

  "Minhaj al-inqilab al-Islami" (The method of Islamic Revolution) by Abul A'la Maududi, (p. 19), 1977.

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• Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

  Lord Kelvin

  Evil, Done, Way

  "Energy and Empire : A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin" by Crosbie Smith and M. Norton Wise, 1892.

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• I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, America, United States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1458, Delphi Classics

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• Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Moving, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.210, Graphic Arts Books

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• Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, May, Rewards

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• The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Deception, Use

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• Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Preparation, Ingredients

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

  Edward Lear

  Food, Oil, Soup

  Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

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• Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

  Ellen Kushner

  Invention, Fingertips, Fine

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• Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

  Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Cutting, Perfect, Silence

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• Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Vices, Circumstances, Slander

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

  Elizabeth David

  Organization, Long, Kitchen

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