Ingenious Quotes

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

Individual, Profit, Device

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe

Fact, Found, Truly

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce

Debt, Chain, Substitute

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Makes, Believes

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce

Weather, Instrument, Barometer

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce

Game, Enjoy, Chance

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. Kissinger

Success, Matter, Chance

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

Writing, Why, Reason

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley

Human, Plumbing, Portable

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley

Plumbing, Portable, Assembly

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Henry W. Kendall

Change, Science, Face

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Best, Hope, Physician

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
Lech Walesa

Calm, Social, Clever

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
James Dyson

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
Karl Rove

Job, Approach, Obama

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
Clyde Tombaugh

Nature, Power, Yourself

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
Terry Eagleton

Poetry, Around, Year

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
Niklaus Wirth

Work, Beautiful, Successful

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Down, Thought, Put

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
Mary-Louise Parker

Corny, Soothing, Artificial

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D'Israeli

Men, Wealth, Open

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.
Daryl Hannah

Political, Sense, Matter

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.
Theodor Herzl

Business, Future, Long

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
Joseph Lancaster

Daily, Community, Encourage

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
Rex Stout

Joy, Read, Daring

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
Mercy Otis Warren

America, State, United

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.
Joe Lieberman

Society, Blessed, Leader

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.
Robert Moog

Great, Design, Simple

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

Life, Rather, Principle

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Ingenious Definition

Og Mandino

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us