Quotes about Invention

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?  My mind goes on working all the same.  In fact, the more head downwards I am, the more I keep inventing new things.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

     When the universe needs something, a desire is instilled to discover, invent or create it. If one person who is called upon to do the actual discovering, inventing or creating doesn't complete it in a timely manner, another or others are called upon to complete the work.

     There are streams of consciousness in the universe. When someone discovers, invents or creates something, often someone else discovers, invents or creates something similar and often at the same or nearly the same time.

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

If at first an idea isn't absurd, there's no hope for it.

We invent nothing, truly. We borrow and re-create. We uncover and discover. All has been given, as the mystics say. We have only to open our eyes and hearts, to become one with that which is.

Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”