Devised Quotes

149 quotes by 139 authors

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently… — John C. Calhoun
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. — Raymond Chandler
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world. — John Henrik Clarke
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without… — John Dewey
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. — Westbrook Pegler
I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure… — Thomas Jefferson
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape,… — Adoniram Judson
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of… — Douglas MacArthur
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than… — Erwin Schrodinger
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… — George Santayana
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question… — Claude Bernard
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another… — Dan Simmons
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor. — Pope Paul VI
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten… — Strom Thurmond
No citizen of this nation is worthy of the name unless he bears unswerving loyalty to the system under which he lives, the system that… — John A. Hannah
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.… — Arthur Eddington

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