Tools Quotes - Page 39

• Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.

  Criss Jami

  Philosophy, Bridges, Understanding

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.10, Criss Jami

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• The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.

  Criss Jami

  Children, People, Mind

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.39, Criss Jami

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• Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Uplifting, Meaningful, Responsibility

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• Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  Arthur Ashe

  Brother, Names, Black

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• The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job.

  Craig Stone

  Jobs, Boxes

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• There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Art, Play, Important

  "Q&A with Kris Kristofferson". Interview with Andy Langer, www.esquire.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Use, Method, Activity

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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• Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

  Michele Cassou

  Painting

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.167, Penguin

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• Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

  Douglas Hurd

  Giving, Slave, Pleasure

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• Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

  Rodney Brooks

  Threat, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial

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• What I’m interested in are tools that can assist people to do the things they’re really good at.

  Pete Cashmore

  People

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• Kings can only use their best tools.

  T. H. White

  Kings, Use

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• Relaxing, embracing, surrendering, trusting - these are the only tools of a lover of truth. So, turn from warrior into a lover.

  Brandon Bays

  Warrior, Lovers, Turns

  Brandon Bays (2010). “Freedom Is: Liberating Your Boundless Potential”, p.63, New World Library

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• Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

  Tony Buzan

  Sports, Art, Children

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• Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mistake, Important, Life Learning

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• The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

  Jesse Shera

  Thinking, Data, Computer

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• Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Fighting, Israel, Unity

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• A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Men, Trade

  "A Saxon Song". "The Independent", Vol. 110, 1923.

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• The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.

  Peter Drucker

  Needs, Made, Should

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.434, Routledge

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• [In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Space, Discovery, Age

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “The Lying Stones of Marrakech”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Knowing, Shaving

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.168

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• If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

  Tom Robbins

  Mother, Children, Fun

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed.

  David Gerrold

  Thinking, Iron, Brain

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• Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

  Frank Herbert

  Technology, Faces, Helping

  "The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction". Book edited by Tim O'Reilly, "Conversations in Port Townsend," (1983), 1987.

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