Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement. ”

When you're quite sure about yourself and the values and where you want to go, it's easy to make difficult choices. ”

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. ”

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah. ”

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that! ”

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments. ”

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom. ”

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. ”

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. ”

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. ”