Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. ”

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. ”

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community. ”

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. ”

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. ”

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ”

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ”

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. ”

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ”

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ”