Quotes on Instruments

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. _x000D_ We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in President Obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for us to just dig in and work harder. We also need to encourage surprise and serendipity. We need to play each other's instruments.

Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.