Devise Quotes

• Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Work
  • Education
  • Workers

• How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • Before
  • Horoscopes
  • Gas Lamps

• It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Productivity
  • Maxim
  • Cryptology

• Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

  

  Edmund Blunden
  • Think
  • Creed
  • Devise

• I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • God
  • Human Mind
  • Represented

• The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • True

• Mr. Bremer, you are an American and I am an Iranian. I suggest we leave it up to the Iraqis to devise their constitution.

  

  Ali al-Sistani
  • Constitution
  • Iraqis
  • Devise