Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ”

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. ”

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. ”

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ”

If the official community is interested in asking the private sector to take another look at Greece, then it will have to be only as part of a broader process of addressing the full range of sovereign debt issues in Europe. ”

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. ”

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense. ”

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ”

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. ”

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ”