
“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”
Source: The Lost Symbol
Alcibiades I
“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”
Source: The Lost Symbol
“Man is a tool-using animal…Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
Bk. I, ch. 5.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
“He became a willing tool in Hitler's hands for every one of his decisions.”
About Wilhelm Keitel. Quoted in "Justice at Nuremberg" - Page 281 - by Robert E. Conot - History - 1993
50 Alcibiades
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
A Better Hope for the Soul, The Watchtower magazine, 8/1 1996.
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 513
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
He's on the way – HIS LIFE begins TODAY [written text in his painting 'Les mains – hommage a Majakovski', 1951 - [ Vladimir Mayakovsky was a Russian Futurist poet].
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1950's
Source: Fernand Léger – The Later Years -, catalogue ed. Nicolas Serota, published by the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art gallery, London, Prestel Verlag, 1988, p. 68