Tool Quotes

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, N.P

“These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Only the weak are corrupted by power. The strong judiciously use it as a tool in service to others”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so--to see you sitting up there so prim.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“You Know, I Think I Hung My Tool T-Shirt Next To My Metallica T-Shirt And They Don't Really Get Along.”
― Jess Mariano, Gilmore Girls

“Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.”
― Lotoya Peterson

“I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them fall away.”
― Tool

“Money is a tool, so I don't have to be.”
― Eddie Mumford

“Within the intelligence community the realization is that Open Source Intelligence is very, very valuable across the whole spectrum of messaging through news, sentiment and measurement,’ Kaplan says. ‘Combined with Human Intelligence and Signal Intelligence, it’s a really powerful predictive tool.”
― Jorn Lyseggen, Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in External Data

“The mature internet is the greatest research tool available.”
― Steven Magee

“The tools cannot reach, and value one's level, and beauty of thoughts, except the visionary ones.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Women empowerment is a tool that assists the society, to recognize women as humans capable of bringing solutions to the table.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“I am not a tool that when you want; you use it for your need, I have the heart that breathes and feels too.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“An iPhone can be a very useful tool; it can do real good. But it’s hard. In the same way that it’s difficult to be a good person, it’s hard. With it, you are easily susceptible to distraction, temptation, a spectrum of major and minor sins. They’re mostly the same ones easily tied up with the internet in general—lust, sloth, envy, pride—but on a mobile device they’re worse, more of an affront to God, because they tend to be committed at the expense of actual interaction with the world—the world He made, for you and for all.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Having a poor memory or inability to focus can be just as much a blessing [as a curse].

Each X has a purpose.”
― Monaristw

“Everyone can do something, but your ability to use the tools effectively makes you stand out from others.”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“The effectiveness of the tool is determined by the skill of the craftsman who created it and the ingenuity with which he utilizes it. And if we dare to believe in God, we might actually begin to believe in ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not the capability of the tool, but the skill of the craftsman. And if the product that we’ve created doesn’t exceed the capability of who we are, we’ve placed ourselves in the hands of a craftsman who’s less than the God we need.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I demand to be both the craftsman and the tool, I will be neither.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I am not a tool that, when you want, you use for your need; I have the heart that breathes and feels too.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Truth, when forged in the fires of emotions, can swell and loom over Fact likes a veil of impenetrable mithril, allowing the unreal to seem more plausible, more desirable, and over time, shift all into a new shared and accepted, albeit fictitious, paradigm.”
― Ronald P. Vincent, The Joyful Guide To Lachrymology

“The tool produces according to human needs, the machine regardless of human needs.”
― Brian Keeble, Art For Whom and For What?

“Is a fishing rod evil because it catches someone's dinner? No. It's a tool. Just the way a gun is. Just the way a chain saw is. Just don't give it to the wrong person.”
― Ann Braden, The Benefits of Being an Octopus

“MZ Innovation is an IT-based company focused on driving innovations and providing easy solutions. Our expertise extends to various areas, including smart houses, robotic solutions, and more.”
― warda

“The most powerful tool you possess is your own belief in yourself.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“Human reason, as a tool, is not perfect, particularly during the period when we are learning to use it.”
― Christopher Tindale

“In the past, a computer was used to be a puppet for a user's hand. Now, we must be careful, no matter how tempting, not to become the puppet for an a.i. hand.”
― Aegelis

“I started to write to Ted to explain my feelings, and then - for the very first time - I truly realized that he could not, would not, understand or empathize or even care what my situation was. I had been meant to serve a purpose in his life; I had been the designated Bundy PR person - and I had failed to produce.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story