"Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the……" — Luther Standing Bear
"Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously."
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Luther Standing Bear
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21 Quotes by Luther Standing Bear
Luther Standing Bear has 21 quotes on this site.
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The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of…
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White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the…
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Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old…
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Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals…
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"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to…
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Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.
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The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of…
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Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs…
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We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as…
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For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
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The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling…
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Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and…
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