Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ”

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither. ”

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect. ”

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. ”

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. ”

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. ”

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

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. ”

Nature is perfect. ”

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ”