Amadou Hampate Ba Quotes

#1. I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

Nhat Hanh

#2. It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

Saint Ambrose

#3. it is not because of the benevolence of the baker that we eat fresh bread every morning but because of his desire to make money.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#4. Beauty always wins friends.

Emma Frances Dawson

#5. Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

Amadou Hampate Ba

#6. Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down.

Amadou Hampate Ba

#7. Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

Ansel Adams

#8. All authentic academic research is based on the simultaneous pursuit of the True, the Beautiful, and the Good - if any is pursued separately, imbalance ensues.

Keith Critchlow

#9. In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Amadou Hampate Ba

#10. Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

Patti Smith

#11. The leads are often the boring part.

Peter Dinklage

#12. Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.

Amadou Hampate Ba