Quotes
Quotes about Tools
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Men have become tools of their tools.
Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is.
For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges, And dullest nonsense has been found By some to be the most profound.
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
A bad workman always blames his tools.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands.
Handle your tools without mittens.
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hand of toil!
