Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. ”

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ”

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. ”

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. ”

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. ”

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ”

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ”

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. ”

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ”

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. ”