Quote by Dorothy Thompson
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he

Inventive man has invented nothing — nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. – Dorothy Thompson

Other quotes by Dorothy Thompson

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. – Dorothy Thompson

Category:
Faith
Read Quote

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. – Dorothy Thompson

Category:
Peace
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Birds
category

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. – William Wordsworth

Category:
Birds

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Birds

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like. – Johann von Goethe

Category:
Birds

A flock of geese leave their lake and take wing, turning to poems in the sky. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Category:
Birds

Random Quotes

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. – Sophia Loren

Category:
Food

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. – Eugene Delacroix

Category:
Art

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administrations support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for societys most powerless. – Gary Bauer

Category:
Society

The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word “fuck.” – Author unknown

Category:
Philosophy