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Double Edged Sword Quotes

Quotes tagged as "double-edged-sword" Showing 1-20 of 20
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mouloud Benzadi
“Fame is a double-edged sword:
It will make you gain status and popularity,
but also lose motivation and creativity.”
Mouloud Benzadi

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds; it also kills all the healed.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Criss Jami
“We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wounded by it. We tend to forget its authority - that it is a double-edged sword. Our decrepit, depraved hearts must be completely ripped out in order to welcome that of God.”
Criss Jami, Healology

Gabriela Mistral
“The gods give, like twin flowers,
power and ruin, memory and oblivion.”
Gabriela Mistral, Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

Siddhartha Mukherjee
“When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences. The parables of such scientific overreach are well-known: foreign animals, introduced to control pests, become pests in their own right; the raising of smokestacks, meant to alleviate urban pollution, releases particulate effluents higher in the air and exacerbates pollution; stimulating blood formation, meant to prevent heart attacks, thickens the blood and results in an increased risk of blood clots in the heart.

But when nonscientists overestimate [italicized, sic] complexity- 'No one can possibly crack this [italicized, sic] code" - they fall into the trap of unanticipated consequences. In the early 1950s , a common trope among some biologists was that the genetic code would be so context dependent- so utterly determined by a particular cell in a particular organism and so horribly convoluted- that deciphering it would be impossible. The truth turned out to be quite the opposite: just one molecule carries the code, and just one code pervades the biological world. If we know the code, we can intentionally alter it in organisms, and ultimately in humans. Similarly, in the 1960s, many doubted that gene-cloning technologies could so easily shuttle genes between species. by 1980, making a mammalian protein in a bacterial cell, or a bacterial protein in a mammalian cell, was not just feasible, it was in Berg's words, rather "ridiculously simple." Species were specious. "Being natural" was often "just a pose.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“There is a correlation between how many years we will live and how many loved ones we will bury.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Isaac Asimov
“A nuclear blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.”
Isaac Asimov, Foundation

Kate Mulgrew
“How is it that words so longed for can hit and miss with equal acuity?”
Kate Mulgrew, How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

Howard Tayler
“No side effects. Clean as a razor sharp, double-edged sword-whistle.”
Howard Tayler, Delegates and Delegation

Mackenzie Finklea
“When you make changes to preserve something, whether an artifact or an entire building, you risk altering the object and it’s history. However, if you don’t, you risk losing it entirely.”
Mackenzie Finklea, Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums

Artnoob 100
“Knowledge is a double-edged sword, my child. It can be a powerful tool for good, but it can also lead us down paths of darkness and corruption.”
Artnoob 100, Till Our Worlds Collide Vol. 1: (Light Novel)

Erik Valeur
“She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immediately: condemnation.”
Erik Valeur, Det syvende barn

“Good and evil are mixed together and reenforced each other in turn.”
Elena Ferrantе

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The very same fact about a thing can be both the good and the bad thing about it.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Priscilla Vogelbacher
“Technology is a double-edged sword, and no one creates a double-edged sword without the intent of using both sides. In the hands of those driven by greed, power and control, technology serves as an indispensable tool for ultimate authoritarianism.”
Priscilla Vogelbacher, Testament of the Hollow

“There are all these things that you never know whether they're features or bugs- in a company or organization, or even in a personal trait. I'm interested in lots of different things. I'm interested in business but also economics and philosophy and literature. I always like to rationalize that as helping me think about things better, or that these things are interdisciplinary. But maybe it's just being a dilettante or procrastinating and not ever really getting focused.”
Peter Thiel

Ryan Gelpke
“And don't forget some vital truth Ian… Points of view can go both ways, it is like a double edged sword, it can cut both ways. Thus it is crucial to stay focused on one’s point of view, otherwise one can get lost in the viewpoints of others, even be engulfed by them and losing ones own path in life. Be careful when you assume someone else’s point of view, it might end up destroying your own and you end up lost in their mind, without a compass back to your own mind!”
Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

Santosh Kalwar
“The truth is often a double-edged sword, severing bonds with its sharpness. Yet, only through the pain of its cut can we understand the depth of our human relationships.”
Santosh Kalwar

Olawale Daniel
“In a volatile market, high leverage trading can be a double-edged sword. If you’re not an experienced trader, it is best to avoid taking large leverage positions. Protect your capital—start small, learn, and scale wisely.”
Olawale Daniel