Devise Quotes

93 quotes by 87 authors

• It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The… — Henry M. Morris
• WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR. — Margaret Mead
• Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies,… — Lewis Sperry Chafer
• Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through… — Dean Lombardi
• The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior… — Judith Lewis Herman
• 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… — Leonardo da Vinci
• A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment it is released...… — Isaac Asimov
• As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to… — Siegbert Tarrasch
• There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all… — Kate Mosse
• I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because… — Steve Swallow
• When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise… — Ralph Marston
• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise… — Malcolm Muggeridge
• Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has… — Amos Oz
• The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future… — Wendell Berry
• Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good. — Dave Ramsey
• The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are… — George Eliot
• The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious… — Bill Mollison
• A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they… — Robert K. Greenleaf
• We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world — Eglantyne Jebb

Who Wrote These Devise Quotes

87 authors contributed a total of 93 Devise Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Devise Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
• 2 Devise Quotes by Claude Bernard
• 2 Devise Quotes by Isaac Asimov
• 2 Devise Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 2 Devise Quotes by Williston Fish
• 1 Devise Quote by Phil Jackson
• 1 Devise Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
• 1 Devise Quote by Edward Fitzgerald
• 1 Devise Quote by Henry M. Morris
• 1 Devise Quote by Peter Singer
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• 1 Devise Quote by Margaret Mead
• 1 Devise Quote by Wole Soyinka
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• 1 Devise Quote by Lewis Sperry Chafer
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• 1 Devise Quote by Dean Lombardi
• 1 Devise Quote by Lorraine Hansberry
• 1 Devise Quote by Judith Lewis Herman
• 1 Devise Quote by Charlotte Bronte
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• 1 Devise Quote by Siegbert Tarrasch
• 1 Devise Quote by Thomas Hardy
• 1 Devise Quote by Kate Mosse