Invention and Judgement – Quote by Jonathan Swift

„Invention is the talent of youth, as judgement is of age“

Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift on the inventive talent of youth and the growing judgement that comes with age.
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Jonathan Swift was a 17th-century Irish writer known for his sharp wit and satirical works.

The quote contrasts the creative power of youth with the mature judgement that comes with age.


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Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was a prominent Irish writer, satirist, and cleric. He gained fame particularly through works like "Gulliver's Travels," in which he unflinchingly exposed social evils and human follies. His critical mind and humor made him a defining figure of the Enlightenment.

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"Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body" Leonardo da Vinci
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