Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages. ”

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. ”

Certainly, the emergence of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the Taylor family has been one of the great things that has happened in St. Louis. We are no longer headquarters for McDonnell Douglas, although the McDonnell family is still very much involved in our community. ”

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on. ”

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. ”

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. ”

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ”

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. ”

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. ”

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. ”