Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism. ”

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. ”

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies. ”

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. ”

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ”

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! ”

The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States. ”

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ”

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ”

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. ”