Top 74 Ingenuity Quotes to Make You Think (WISDOM)

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Top 10 Most Famous Ingenuity Quotes (BEST)

“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
Steve Jobs

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams — A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. – Douglas Adams

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton — Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George S. Patton

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity! - Ernie J. Zelinski — Making the simple complex doesn’t take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that’s ingenuity! – Ernie J. Zelinski

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try. - Atul Gawande — Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try. – Atul Gawande

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. - Alan Turing — Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. – Alan Turing

Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles. - Bob Richards — Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles. – Bob Richards

You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity. - Ariel Garten — You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity. – Ariel Garten

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management. - Douglas McGregor — The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management. – Douglas McGregor

Lying stimulates one's imagination and ingenuity. - Francoise Sagan — Lying stimulates one’s imagination and ingenuity. – Francoise Sagan

20 Thought-Provoking Ingenuity Quotes

“When the whole world is entrenched in the bunker of physical and often emotional isolation, only flexibility and ingenuity can revive us to remain grounded and imbibe the bolstering sunlight piercing through the canvas of chaos. (Because the world has corona)”
Erik Pevernagie

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource. - Dan Shechtman — Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource. – Dan Shechtman

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. - Mahatma Gandhi — Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. – Mahatma Gandhi

“Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.”
Jean Rostand

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice. - Winston Churchill — There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice. – Winston Churchill

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. - Edgar Allan Poe — It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. – Edgar Allan Poe

“If the company depends entirely on you – your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma – nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.”
Margaret Heffernan

If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is. - Ilona Andrews — If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is. – Ilona Andrews

If ingenuity is an indicator of how much we love someone, then the story of Christmas is about as ingenious as you can get. - Craig D. Lounsbrough — If ingenuity is an indicator of how much we love someone, then the story of Christmas is about as ingenious as you can get. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.”
Donald Knuth

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. - Charles de Saint-Evremond — There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. – Charles de Saint-Evremond

I like challenges that test your ingenuity. - Colin Baker — I like challenges that test your ingenuity. – Colin Baker

“Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact. I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.”
Paul Davies

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. - Donald Barthelme — The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. – Donald Barthelme

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser. - Joseph Addison — Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser. – Joseph Addison

“Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin – like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.”
Camille Paglia

Ingenuity requires creativity. - Veronica Roth — Ingenuity requires creativity. – Veronica Roth

Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse - Neil deGrasse Tyson — Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse? – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time. - Nalo Hopkinson — Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time. – Nalo Hopkinson

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports. - Sun Tzu — Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports. – Sun Tzu

8 Inspirational Ingenuity Quotes

“The American Dream is simple: it’s the unwavering belief that anybody – you, me, your friends, your neighbors, grandma Verna – can become exceedingly successful, and all it takes is the right amount of work, ingenuity, and determination.”
Mark Manson

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit. - William J. Clinton — No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit. – William J. Clinton

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr. — The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you’re at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You’re going to be busy, but n ever forget family and friends.”
Daniel Goldin

“It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.”
Dalai Lama

“Go looking for conflict, and you’ll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you’ll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you’re his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you’ll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you’ll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.”
Bob Burg

“I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.”
Sophia Loren

“The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.”
William C. Menninger

8 Ingenuity Quotes That Inspires Innovation and Invention

“In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honored, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.”
Oscar Wilde

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. - Megan Smith — Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. – Megan Smith

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high. - Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin — Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high. – Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

“We’re going to design future cars the way people design airplanes. Except we have to use so much technology and ingenuity to reduce its cost and its form factor. We can’t afford to have a jet plane. That would be great if could.”
Jensen Huang

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. - Brian Wesbury — When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. – Brian Wesbury

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity. - Filippo Brunelleschi — To disclose too much of one’s inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one’s ingenuity. – Filippo Brunelleschi

“Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.”
Christiana Figueres

“More and more, other countries are able to manufacture things cheaper, beating us in the marketplace in a lot of ways. So we need to do whatever we can to make sure America’s ability to protect its ingenuity is as strong as it can be.”
Lonnie Johnson

5 Ingenuity Quotes on Money and Budgeting

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. - George Dennison Prentice — Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. – George Dennison Prentice

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. - Thomas Sowell — Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. – Thomas Sowell

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. - Arnold Bennett — Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. – Arnold Bennett

The best substitute for money is ingenuity. - Patti Page — The best substitute for money is ingenuity. – Patti Page

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity. - Terry Pratchett — Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity. – Terry Pratchett

2 Ingenuity Quotes on Nature

“We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.”
Harrison Ford

“And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.”
John Hersey

3 Ingenuity Quotes on Leadership and Governance

“We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we’ve accomplished. Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
Ronald Reagan

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers. - Sarah Palin — We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers. – Sarah Palin

Government is not moved by sympathy. It is moved by ingenuity. - Enock Maregesi — Government is not moved by sympathy. It is moved by ingenuity. – Enock Maregesi

2 Ingenuity Quotes on Construction

“You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.”
Le Corbusier

“The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.”
John Muir

16 Ingenuity Quotes That Will Make You Think

“As a species, we’ve somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we’ll survive our own ingenuity.”
Diane Ackerman

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. - Thomas Jefferson — There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. – Thomas Jefferson

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up. - Terry Pratchett — Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up. – Terry Pratchett

“The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.”
Brian Greene

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. - Hannah More — The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible. – Hannah More

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. - Winston Churchill — Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. – Winston Churchill

“The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.”
Edgar Allan Poe

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. - George Meany — Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. – George Meany

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. - Julia Ward Howe — Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. – Julia Ward Howe

“Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid’s Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid’s presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.”
Bernard Bolzano

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse. - Theodore Dalrymple — If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse. – Theodore Dalrymple

“Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.”
William Makepeace Thackeray

“Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared; he uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects, and will take greater risks in carrying them out, than any other malefactor on earth.”
Robert Barr

“Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher’s art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.”
William James

“Hard work isn’t enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It’s actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.”
Reid Hoffman

“If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.”
Arlen Specter

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