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Best Quotes by Wendell Berry
- When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to…
- All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold…
- Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is…
- To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money,…
- You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
- To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by…
- I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about…
- The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have…
- It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen…
- The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful…
- Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
- Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of…
More Best Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle