#wisdom

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. ↗

— Stanley Kunitz

#call #died #gods #heroes #mind

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#man #me #montana #ranch #spending

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#ignorance #wisdom

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. ↗

— Jean Bodin

#history #political #study #wisdom

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

#forsake #helpful #human #more #pity

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#prosperity #suspect #thou #wisdom #worst

Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain. ↗

— Friedrich von Schiller

#inspirational #transcience #wisdom #inspirational

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. ↗

— David Brainerd

#beheld #deplorable #eye #father #god

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#collective #i #i do #ignorance #individual

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope