Quotes about "Global & Cultural Wisdom"

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ”

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about. ”

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ”

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. ”

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ”

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. ”

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. ”

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ”

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. ”

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. ”