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IDEAS : No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)
IDEAS : Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)
IDEAS : If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones. (Peter Dunov, Bulgarian philosopher and spiritual teacher, 1864-1944)
IDEAS : Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. (Emile Chartier, French philosopher, journalist, and pacifist, 1868-1951)
IDENTITY : People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something on creates. (Thomas Szasz, U.S. professor of psychiatry and author, 1920-2012)
IDLENESS : It is no rest to be idle. (Paul Peel, Canadian academic painter, 1860-1892)
IDLENESS : It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. (Jerome. K. Jerome, English writer and humorist, 1859-1927)
IDLENESS : The hardest work is to go idle. (Jewish proverb)
IDLENESS : Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
IGNORANCE : He that knows little, often repeats it. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
IGNORANCE : The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. (John Lyly, English playwright, poet, dramatist, and courtier, 1554-1606)
IGNORANCE : There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
IGNORANCE : Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Mary Kay Ash, U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)
IGNORANCE : The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. (Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)
IGNORANCE : The trouble ain't that people are ignorant. It's that they know so much that ain't so. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)
IGNORANCE : Every true genius is bound to be naive. (J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)
IGNORANCE : Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. (Werner Von Braun, German- American aerospace engineer and space architect, 1912-1977)
IGNORANCE : Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)
IGNORANCE : Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)
IGNORANCE : I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)
IGNORANCE : There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
ILLNESS : The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. (Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic religious sister who lived most of her life in India, 1910-1997)
ILLNESS : Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. (Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology, best known today for his work on hypnosis and hysteria, 1825-1893)
ILLNESS : When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. (Luc de Clapiers, French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)
ILLUSION - RELIGION : A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Unknown Source)
ILLUSION - RELIGION : A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. (Saul Bellow, Canadian-born U.S. writer, Nobel laureate, 1915-2005)
ILLUSIONS : Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British author and journalist, 1905-1983)
ILLUSIONS : The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. (Arthur Miller, U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005)
ILLUSIONS : The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. (Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet, novelist, and playwright, 1799-1837)
ILLUSORY INFORMATION : The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin, U.S. historian, professor, attorney, and writer, 1914-2004)
IMAGINATION : Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
IMAGINATION : The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. (Publilius Syrus, Syrian Latin writer, 85-43 BCE)
IMAGINATION : Imagination is the eye of the soul. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)
IMAGINATION : He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)
IMAGINATION : Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination. (Marcel Proust, French novelist and essayist, 1871-1922)
IMAGINATION : The human race is governed by its imagination. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)
IMAGINATION : Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the world. (Unknown Source)
IMAGINATION : There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination. (Anais Nin, French-born novelist, 1903-1977)
IMAGINATION : Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the world. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
IMAGINATION : Knowledge is limited, but imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
IMAGINATION : Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
IMAGINATION : Live out of your imagination, not your history. (Stephen Covey, U.S. educator, author, and businessman, 1932-2012)
IMAGINATION : Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. (John Dewey, U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)
IMAGINATION : Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. (Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, 1862-1932)
IMAGINATION : You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
IMITATION : To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation. (Unknown Source)
IMITATION : We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation. (Lord Chesterfield, British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)
IMITATION : Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. (Walter Colton, U.S. naval chaplain, author, and co-publisher of California’s first newspaper, 1797-1851)
IMITATION : Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
IMITATION : A good imitation is the most perfect originality. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
IMITATION : To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German experimental physicist and satirist, 1742-1799)
IMMIGRATION : Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian (native American). (Robert Orben, U.S. professional comedy writer, magician, and presidential speech writer, Born 1927)
IMMORALITY : One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
IMMORTALITY : Life is the childhood of our immortality. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
IMMORTALITY : Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)
IMMORTALITY : I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying. (Woody Allen, U.S. actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, Born 1935)
IMMORTALITY : One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. (Unknown Source)
IMPARTIALITY : He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self,and looks on everything with an impartial eye. (Gautama Buddha, an Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE)
IMPEACHMENT : The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., U.S. historian, social critic, public intellectual, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1917-2007)
IMPERIALISM : �There isn�t a single square inch of the world that hasn�t been stolen.� In other words, there is no place in the world that has not been stolen or taken from someone else. Countries talk about hereditary borders, but such talk is nonsense There�s always been someone else there before. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
IMPERIALISM : I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
IMPERIALISM : There isn't a single square inch of the world that hasn't been stolen. In other words, there is no place in the world that has not been stolen or taken from someone else. Countries talk about hereditary borders, but such talk is nonsense There's always been someone else there before. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
IMPOSSIBILITIES : The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. (Dorothea Brande, U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948)
IMPOSSIBILITIES : An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. (Henry S. Haskins, U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)
IMPOSSIBILITY : You cannot make a crab walk straight. (Aristophanes, Greek comic playwright of ancient Athens, 447-386 B.C.E.)
IMPOSSIBILITY : You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. (English proverb)
IMPOSSIBILITY : You can't get blood out of a turnip. (English proverb)
IMPOSSIBLE : I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. (Werner Von Braun, German- American aerospace engineer and space architect, 1912-1977)
INACTION : A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. (John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)
INCARCERATION : The U.S. incarcerates more people than China - an authoritarian state - with 4 times the U.S. population. (Mike Lofgren, U.S. author and former U.S. Congressional aide)
INCLUSION : He drew a circle that shut me ouHeretic, rebel, a thing to floutBut love and I had the wit to winWe drew a circle that took him in. (Edwin Markham, social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)
INDEBTEDNESS : We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. (John Buchan, Scottishpoet, novelist, historian, and politician, 1875-1940)
INDEPENDENCE : I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
INDEPENDENCE : When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. (John Muir, U.S. naturalist and author, 1838-1914)
INDEPENDENCE : Two roads diverged in the wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer prizes and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works, 1874-1963)
INDIFFERENCE : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. (Dante Alighieri, Italian poet of the Middle Ages, 1265-1321)
INDIFFERENCE : Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. (Sir James Goldsmith, Anglo-French financier and politician, 1933-1997)
INDIVIDUALISM : Think for yourself and let others enjoy the right to do the same. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
INDIVIDUALISM : The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
INDIVIDUALS : Each and every one of us is a unique musical instrument that echoes her/his distinctive melody. Together we construct the world’s orchestra that makes the universe work. (Unknown source)
INEQUALITY : We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, 1876-1967)
INEQUALITY : We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, 1876-1967)
INFLATION : Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. (Milton Friedman, economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1912-2006)
INFLUENCE : You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time. (John Knox, Scottish theologian and writer who was a leader of the Reformation, 1514-1572)
INITIATIVE : Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. (Henry Van Dyke, U.S. poet, 1852-1933)
INITIATIVE : From a fallen tree, all make kindling. (Spanish proverb)
INITIATIVE : He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. (Horace, Roman lyric poet and satirist, 65 to 8 BCE)
INITIATIVE : The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)
INITIATIVE : Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. (Christina Rossetti, English poet, 1830-1894)
INITIATIVE : Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. (Unknown source)
INITIATIVE : The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)
INITIATIVE : We must each ask ourselves: What is the right and creative thing for me to do in this hour---and do it! (Unknown source)
INITIATIVE : No one can build you a bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
INITIATIVE : You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills, U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)
INITIATIVE : You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers. (Buddhist proverb)
INITIATIVE : Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. (Brendan Francis Behan, Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)
INITIATIVE : As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come. (Ernest Hemingway, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)
INITIATIVE : He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him. (Dutch proverb)
INITIATIVE : Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
INITIATIVE : The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. (Chinese proverb)
INITIATIVE : No one can build you a bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900Protests: I would rather die standing in resistance than begging on my knees! (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)
INITIATIVE : I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)
INITIATIVE : We don’t need to see where the staircase leads to take the first step. (Natalia Vie, Latina-American fencing champion)
INITIATIVE : The turtle only moves ahead by sticking out its neck. (Unknown source)
INJUSTICE : He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)
INJUSTICE : If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Desmond Tutu, South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop, Born 1931)
INJUSTICE : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Unknown Source)
INNOCENCE : Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. (Mary Astor, U.S. actress who began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies, 1906-1987)
INNOCENCE : The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)
INNOCENCE : It is better ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. (Sir William Blackstone, English jurist, judge, and politician who is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1728-1780)
INNOVATION : Great progress flows from once laughable ideas - such as moon colonization. (Unknown Source)
INNOVATION : For big disruptive ideas, look for people who have a healthy disregard for the impossible. (Larry Page, U.S. computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, Born 1973)
INNOVATION : Great progress flows from once laughable ideas - such as moon colonization. (Newt Gingrich, U.S. politician, Born 1943)
INNOVATORS : Innovators are inevitably controversial. (Eva Le Gallienne, British-born U.S. stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author, 1899-1991)
INSANITY : Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different. (Unknown Source)
INSANITY : Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)
INSANITY : Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the results to be different is insanity. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
INSANITY : Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. (Ray Bradbury, U.S. author and screenwriter, 1920-2012)
INSANITY : Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
INSIGHT : The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980)
INSINCERITY : The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. (George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, 1903-1950)
INSPIRATION : Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. (Ned Rorem, U.S. composer and diarist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his music, Born 1923)
INSPIRATION : Inspiration and genius - one and the same. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)
INSPIRATION : For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
INSTINCTS : Instinct is untaught ability. (Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher and educationalist who founded Mind, the first ever journal of psychology and analytical philosophy, and was the leading figure in establishing and applying the scientific method to psychology, 1818-1903)
INSTINCTS : Instinct is the nose of the mind. (Madame de Girardin, French author, 1804-1855)
INSTINCTS : If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. (Rollo May, U.S. author, psychologist, and associated with existential philosophy, 1909-1994)
INSTINCTS : The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. (Stanley Kubrick, U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer, 1928-1999)
INSTINCTS : Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
INSTINCTS : Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. (Saint Bartholomew, born in Galilee and one of the twelve apostles of Jesus)
INSTINCTS : Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. (John Sterling, Scottish author, 1806-1844)
INSTINCTS : A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain. (Llewelyn Powers, U.S. lawyer and politician, 1836-1908)
INSTINCTS : Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses. (Latin proverb)
INSTINCTS : Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. (Denis Diderot, French Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, 1713-1784)
INSTINCTS : Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. (Don Marquis, U.S. humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1878-1937)
INTEGRITY : Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity. (Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)
INTEGRITY : I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. (Pietro Aretino, Italian satirist and dramatist, 1492-1556)
INTEGRITY : One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. (Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013)
INTENTIONS : In taming our inner dragons, the energy of old and, often, unconscious habits and personal complexes may too frequently overpower our fragile intentions. (Unknown Source)
INTENTIONS : In taming our inner dragons, the energy of old and, often, unconscious habits and personal complexes may too frequently overpower our fragile intentions. (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)
INTERDEPENDENCE : When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. (John Muir, U.S. naturalist and author, 1838-1914)
INTERDEPENDENCE : When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. (Unknown Source)
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION : International education turns nations into people. (William Fulbright, U.S. senator who supported the creation of the United Nations, 1905-1995)
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION : The world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it. (Paul Bowles, U.S. expatriate composer and author in Morocco, 1910-1999)
INTIMACY : If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain. (Marshall Rosenberg, U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)
INTUITION : Intuition ad creativity are informed by practice and diligence. (David Kelley, U.S. designer, engineer, professor, and founder of the design firm, IDEO, Born 1951)
INTUITION : I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. (Buckminster Fuller, U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)
INTUITION - CREATIVITY : Intuition ad creativity are informed by practice and diligence. (David Kelley, U.S. designer, engineer, professor, and founder of the design firm, IDEO, Born 1951)
INVENTIONS : Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)
INVENTORS : If I [Henry Ford] had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. (Henry Ford, U.S. founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)
INVESTIGATIVE MEDIA : The power to investigate is a great public trust. (Emanuel Celler, U.S. statesman, 1888-1981)
INVESTMENT : You have to have an egg to make an omelet (Unknown source)
INVOLVEMENT : When you’re through changing, learning, working to stay involved - only then are you through. (William Safire, U.S. presidential speechwriter and author of language-related topics, 1929-2009)