Hampate Quotes

#1. To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

Walter Pater

#2. It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art ... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes ...

Mark Twain

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

Amadou Hampate Ba

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

Amadou Hampate Ba

#5. The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

Rosie Thomas

#6. You are who you are. Make no apologies for it." He presses a kiss to my forehead. "I would change nothing about you.

Ruby Dixon

#7. Oxford University offered prizes for the works that attacked Vedic knowledge.

Devamrita Swami

#8. I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

Ian Watson

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

Amadou Hampate Ba

#10. Flourishing is not measured by outward signs such as income, possessions, or attractiveness. It means becoming the person he he had in mind in creating you. Flourishing means moving toward God's best version of you.

John Ortberg

#11. 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

#12. After pleasantries, they made

Suzanne Jenkins