Quotes of Utensil - somelinesforyou

“ Now again, there are so many gadgets on cameras now that people abandon these simpler instruments for the more sure instruments. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ Blunt tools are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot fence rail. ”

- William Faulkner

“ We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. ”

- William Petty

“ I think it's fair to say we have a rather major disagreement on this point. ”

- Christopher Hill

“ I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve. ”

- Lou Harrison

“ Science is not... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself. ”

- Carl G. Jung

“ Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit. ”

- Howard Gardner

“ It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ Men have become the tools of their tools. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ”

- Henri Bergson

“ Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. ”

- Robert Collier
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