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Quotations by Subject: Invention (7 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.: Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009

Results from Classic Quotes:

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.: Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706), Dictionairre Historique et Critique
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.: Susanne Langer (1895 - 1985)
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Necessity, who is the mother of invention.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.: Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic

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