Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old invention quotes, invention sayings, and invention proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.Carl Van Vechten
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Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.Amar Bose
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.Ambrose Bierce
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.William Congreve
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Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.Julie Newmar
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed.John Kenneth Galbraith
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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.Edwin H. Land
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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.Jeff Bezos
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.Mary Shelley
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.Jeff Bezos
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.Douglas Engelbart
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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.William Blake
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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.Tim O'Reilly
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Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.Mary Shelley
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Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.Trevor Baylis
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.Thomas Edison
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The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.Vanna Bonta
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.Thomas More
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.William James
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.Igor Stravinsky
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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model.Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.Thomas S. Kuhn
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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.David Frost
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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
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Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.Robert H. Thurston
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Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.Joseph Jastrow
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Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.Samuel Johnson
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Invention is not always good. Sometimes our inventions are too powerful for us to control.Gemma Malley
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Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.Sark
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A great invention for dieters would be a refrigerator which weighs you every time you open the door.Anonymous
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.Nikola Tesla
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Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.Judith Schaechter
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence.Arthur Conan Doyle
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The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.Demetri Martin
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An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.Amit Kalantri
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Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.Philippe Kahn
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Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.Amit Kalantri
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.Henri Poincare
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Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.Wentworth Dillon
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.Charles Kettering
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Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.Ray Dolby
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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.Ha-Joon Chang
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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.Thomas A. Edison
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Doubt is the father of invention.Ambrose Bierce
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.Jonathan Swift