(439 quotes found)
“They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her child invention that's the real dangerous one.”
Darien Fawkes
“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”
Leon Trotsky
“Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.”
John Fowles
“The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.”
Derby Brown
“It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.”
Bertrand Russell
“Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.”
Cher
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.”
George Gurdjieff
“In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.”
Mark Twain
