Quotes about Invention

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding.

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Let's go invent tomorrow.

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

Truth is discovered, not invented. It exists independent of anyone's knowledge of it. (Gravity existed prior to Newton.)

You Know what, sometimes it seems to me we've living in a world that fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves...And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problems is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable.