Logo - Feel The Words

Devise Quotes

How intelligence and necessity devise a way forward.

This devise quotes page centers on human ingenuity, opening with the idea that intelligence, not brute strength, lets a person devise a way to entrap even a tiger. For more on human capability, Able quotes shares a similar spirit.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Quotes by Adelbert von Chamisso

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

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 kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Quotes by Wole Soyinka

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 there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Quotes by Steve Swallow

Able Quotes

If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its malfunctions. And if we can really figure out the retina, perhaps we will have a...

Quotes by Sebastian Seung

Possession of the pure synthetic specimens of the anthocyanidins and chief anthocyanins enabled my wife and me to devise quick tests for these colouring matters which can be used with the material from a few flower petals.

Quotes by Robert Robinson

Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so.

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

Madam C.J. Walker was the first person to devise and scale a business model that addressed the hair care and beauty needs of women of color while also challenging the myopic ideals of the beauty industry at that time.

Quotes by Richelieu Dennis

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single...

Quotes by Richard McCabe

About Quotes

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Quotes by Nina Fedoroff

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

Quotes by Martin Filler

We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.

Quotes by M. S. Swaminathan

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 nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo da Vinci

Conservative journalists don't just have the inside track on Republican strategy - they help devise it.

Quotes by Jacob Weisberg

Agriculture Quotes

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 Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

Quotes by Henry M. Morris

It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There's no reason they couldn't likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from...

Quotes by Henry Petroski

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

Quotes by Hal Rogers

I think about issues. I use my economic training to devise solutions.

Quotes by Gita Gopinath

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded...

Quotes by Elizabeth Kenny

Man Quotes

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit...

Quotes by Edward Sapir

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the common thread across these devise quotes?
Each quote centers on using intelligence or necessity to devise a solution, whether against physical danger, isolation, or scientific limitation.
Why do people search for devise quotes?
People search for devise quotes when writing about problem-solving, ingenuity, or the creative strategies people invent under pressure.
Is there a quote about using intelligence over brute strength?
Yes, one quote argues that a man can't successfully fight a tiger with strength alone, but intelligence lets him devise a means to entrap it instead.
Does any quote mention devising ways to survive isolation?
Yes. One describes being deprived of human companionship for a long period and having to devise all kinds of mental exercises just to cope, calling the process amazing.
Is there a quote connecting devising methods to genetics?
Yes, one notes that as understanding of genes grew over the last century, scientists were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Other lines describe devising mental exercises to survive prolonged isolation, or devising new methods to accelerate evolution through genetics. Readers interested in resourcefulness may also enjoy Man quotes as a related page.