Devise Quotes

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I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means… — Thomas Jefferson
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of… — Claude Bernard
Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than… — Vincent de Paul
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar… — Bayard Rustin
The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for… — Chester W. Nimitz
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. — William Shakespeare
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and… — Cliff Shaw
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. — Nina Fedoroff
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective… — Paul Strand
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much… — William Lipscomb
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall,… — Williston Fish
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof,… — Williston Fish
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal… — George Perkins Marsh
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks… — H. L. Mencken
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in… — Mahatma Gandhi
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal… — Peter Singer
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all… — Wole Soyinka
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler

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