Western Wisdom Quotes

#1. If he closes his eyes he sees the streets of Asia full of fire. It rolls across cities like a burst map, the hurricane of heat withering bodies as it meets them, the shadow of humans suddenly in the air. This tremor of Western wisdom.

Michael Ondaatje

#2. Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

Aijaz Ahmad

#3. Generally, when a man is rabidly for one cause, and then is just as rabidly for another cause, it is not because he loves the cause: it is because he loves the rabies

Paul Collins

#4. Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so rewarding.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

Agatha Christie

#6. Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Some good-bad nights I spent, loving my self-hatred.

Don DeLillo

#8. Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

Erma Bombeck

#9. The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind.
"Ah," said Eric, "Good."
"No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement."
"Oh.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Chatter about art is almost always useless.

Paul Cezanne

#11. Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

Stanislav Grof

#12. All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

John Wayne

#13. Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Beau Bridges

#14. The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no other nation was willing to take up that defense. Churchill was the greatest military, political and spiritual leader of the 20th century.

Victor Davis Hanson

#15. The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

Pat Metheny

#16. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
"Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said.
"It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said.
"It is," I said.
"That's not about Taoism," he said.
"Oh, yes it is," I said."

Benjamin Hoff

#17. Grace is power, not just pardon.

John Piper

#18. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George Muller

#19. Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom?

Heather Blanton

#20. Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

Lewis Mumford

#21. I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

Garry Shandling

#22. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes,

Elon Musk

#23. Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.

L. Ron Hubbard

#24. Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is a time for concerted prayer, divine wisdom and greater courage than we have ever been called upon to exercise,

James Dobson

#25. She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?

Austin Wright

#26. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Shakti Gawain