The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Evelyn Waugh

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
Donna Tartt

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
John Dos Passos

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
Robert Sternberg

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Anne Sullivan

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
Sidney Sheldon

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
Neil Tennant

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Otto Lilienthal

To invent is to discern, to choose.
Henri Poincare

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy

We can invent only with memory.
Alphonse Karr

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
Michael E. Mann

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
George Combe