Ploughshare Quotes

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring... - Henri Frederic Amiel

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. - Thomas Mann