Ingenuity Quotes - Page 8

• Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Food, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Men, Plot

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.1050, Delphi Classics

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

  Max Born

  Science, Skills, Littles

  "Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance" by Max Born, (p. 2), 1964.

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• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

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• Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as evidence that God designed your mind to be so receptive to Him. Or, just maybe, you will come to acknowledge that, like the rest of us, you are a hopeless pawn in one of natural selection's most successful hoaxes ever-and smile at the sheer ingenuity involved in pulling it off, at the very thought of such mindless cleverness. One can still enjoy the illusion of God, after all, without believing Him to be real.

  Jesse Bering

  Real, Believe, Successful

  Jesse Bering (2013). “The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Stupid, Race

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time . . . the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Time, Philosophy, Lying

  "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" by S. Rajasekar, September 7, 2006.

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• So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Powerful, Moving, Simple

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• I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve the problems for them. They could use their own ingenuity, use their own talents to solve whatever the issue was. And I like that still. I think that children want to read about heroic children. They don't want to read about children that have to be saved all the time.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Reading

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• the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.

  Rosita Forbes

  Camels, Grass, Throwing

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what? You know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that!

  Jon Stewart

  Views, Imagination, Liberty

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• Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Race, Secret

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.131, Routledge

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• The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday

  Charles Petzold

  Design, Lazy, Aversion

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.299, Microsoft Press

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• In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighed in a poem, a novel, or a picture, by charm of manner, by ingenuity of execution; but in a drama the subject is of the essence of the work-it is the work. If it is feeble, the work can have no force; if it is shapeless, the work must be amorphous.

  Henry James

  Art, Drama, Essence

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.13640, Delphi Classics

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• War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

  Storm Jameson

  Strong, War, Men

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There's really quite a beautiful marriage between Milady's ingenuity and D'Artagnan's immaturity. When they first meet, she's trying to frame him. She's using him for a certain reason. They haven't just met by coincidence. She's singled him out for a reason. She knows that she can almost make D'Artagnan do what she wants to, and that's when D'Artagnan's immaturity comes out.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Beautiful, Immaturity, Trying

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• A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation.

  James Rickards

  Hard Work, Gold, Information

  James Rickards (2014). “The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System”, p.156, Penguin

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• I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.

  George H. W. Bush

  Technology, America, People

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• ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Order, Sound

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.

  Horace Walpole

  Fashion, Silly, People

  Horace Walpole (1861). “The letters of Horace Walpole: earl of Orford”, p.278

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• As the United States begins a new chapter in our relationship with Cuba, we hope it will create an environment that improves the lives of the Cuban people, not because it is imposed by us, the United States, but through the talent and ingenuity and aspirations, and the conversations among Cubans from all walks of life so they can decide what the best course is for their prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Life, People, United States

  "Barack Obama and Raúl Castro's handshake captured by cameras" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.

  Isaac Newton

  Mean, Analysis, Construction

  Isaac Newton (2008). “1691-1695”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

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• The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Opportunity, Government

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• Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when we seek to maximize efficiency by planting crops or raising animals in vast mono-cultures. This is something nature never does, always and for good reasons practicing diversity instead. A great many of the health and environmental problems created by our food system owe to our attempts to oversimplify nature's complexities, at both the growing and the eating ends of our food chain.

  Michael Pollan

  Technology, Animal, Diversity

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Men, Technology

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