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Neighbor Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if…
- A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
- Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all…
- If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in…
- People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.…
More Neighbor Quotes
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. — George Bancroft
- Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. — George Ade
- Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural… — Alfred Adler
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is… — Wendell Berry
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. — Josh Billings