Necessity Quotes

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

There is no virtue like necessity.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.
Simonides

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife
Jonathan Schattke

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
Dante

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
Quintus Curtius Rufus

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Friedrich Engels

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

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

Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger Von Oech

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
John Ashcroft

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.







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