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Wells Quotes by Wendell Berry
- To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to…
- You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well…
- Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to…
- Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
- Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
- A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social…
- We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves…
- As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I…
- As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong