George Dana Boardman Pepper famous quotes

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
-- George Dana Boardman Pepper

#Wise #Nature #Ignorance

The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.
-- George Dana Boardman Pepper

#Easter #Heaven #Ladders

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.
-- George Dana Boardman Pepper

#Adoption #Needs #World

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
-- George Dana Boardman Pepper

#Death #Evil #Dying

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.