
„What one man can invent, another can discover.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle, book The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Source: The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
„What one man can invent, another can discover.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle, book The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Source: The Adventure of the Dancing Men
— Kanye West American rapper, singer and songwriter 1977
All Falls Down
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
„Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.“
— Leo Tolstoy, book Anna Karenina
(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
„The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.“
— Michel Foucault, book Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish (1977)
Source: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
„Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.“
— Nicholas Lore American social scientist 1944
NOW WHAT? The Young Person's Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career, Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN 9780743266307
— Trinny Woodall English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author 1964
As quoted in "MEN reader meets Trinny and Susannah" by Helen Tither in Manchester Evening News (9 October 2006)
— Sydney Smith English writer and clergyman 1771 - 1845
Source: Vol. II, letter to Catherine Crowe (31 January 1841), pp. 441–442 note: Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
„Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it“
— Michelangelo Buonarroti Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet 1475 - 1564
„The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man’s existence.“
— Theodore Dalrymple English doctor and writer 1949
Exposing Shallowness http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/demello-dalrymple-2647 (June 2000).
New Criterion (2000 - 2005)
— Edward Carpenter British poet and academic 1844 - 1929
"Custom," http://books.google.com/books?id=5WxIAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Every+human+being+grows+up+inside+a+sheath+of+custom+which+enfolds+it+as+the+swathing+clothes+enfold+the+infant%22&pg=PA136#v=onepage The Fortnightly Review (1 July 1888)
"Custom," http://books.google.com/books?id=WRhwu0Lvag0C&q=%22Every+human+being+grows+up+inside+a+sheath+of+custom+which+enfolds+it+as+the+swathing+clothes+enfold+the+infant%22&pg=PA148#v=onepage Civilization Its Cause And Cure And Other Essays (1889) p. 148
— Friedrich Engels German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher 1820 - 1895
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/ch04.htm (1886)
„A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.“
— Abraham Verghese, book Cutting for Stone
Source: Cutting for Stone
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
Variant: Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.