Necessity Quotes

Necessity... the mother of invention. (Plato)
Necessity makes even the timid brave. View quote
Sallust
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. View quote
Euripides
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. View quote
Margaret Mead
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. View quote
Edward Bellamy
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. View quote
Agatha Christie
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. View quote
Carl Jung
Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity. View quote
William of Ockham
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. (Albert Einstein)
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. View quote
Simone Weil
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. View quote
Norman Mailer
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. View quote
Bertrand Russell
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends. (Coco Chanel)
Necessity, the mother of invention. View quote
George Farquhar
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. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. View quote
Mark Twain
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. View quote
Franz Boas