Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. — Paul Klee
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. — Allan Bloom
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of… — Frederic Bastiat
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision… — Thomas Sowell
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you… — Walter Russell
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further… — Richard Goldschmidt
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. — Humphry Davy
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. — Johannes Kepler
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,… — Henri Poincare
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the… — Abraham Lincoln
The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more meditation goes deep,… — Rajneesh
Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath. — Radhanath Swami
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of… — Mao Zedong
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be… — Thomas Jefferson

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