Blunt Quote by Gregory Bateson

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is…

— Alfred Korzybski

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

— Edsger Dijkstra

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain.…

— Gertrude Jekyll

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

— Laozi

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

— Craig Stone

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with…

— Dalai Lama

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

— Leo Tolstoy

A word for the wise is not neccessary, it is only the foolish once that needs it.

— Joseph David

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one

— Ray Mears

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

— Agnes Repplier

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

— Plutarch