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30+ Invention Quotes

The invention refers to the action of inventing something, typically a processor device. The invention is the process of creating something that has never been made before. Inventions changed the world. This is a collection of 32 "Invention" quotes and sayings.


Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking. - Sark
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. - Jonathan Swift
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. - Samuel Johnson
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. - Mary Shelley
Necessity... the mother of invention. - Plato
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. - William Congreve
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. - Tom Clancy
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new. - Jeff Bezos
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. - Igor Stravinsky
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. - Orson Welles
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling. - Amar Bose
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. - Ignazio Silone
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. - Martin Farquhar Tupper
Failure is your invention. - Sophia Amoruso
Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention. - Joseph Jastrow
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. - Edward Hopper
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. - Julie Newmar
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Invention is the mother of necessity. - Thorstein Veblen
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. - Thomas More
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. - Trevor Baylis
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. - Jeff Bezos
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence. - Carl Van Vechten
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. - Judith Schaechter
Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention. - Joseph Jastrow
A great invention for dieters would be a refrigerator which weighs you every time you open the door. - Anonymous
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate. - Amit Kalantri
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent. - Ray Dolby
Invention is not always good. Sometimes our inventions are too powerful for us to control. - Gemma Malley
Doubt is the father of invention. - Ambrose Bierce
Necessity, the mother of invention. - George Farquhar
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