Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Quotes

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.

A library implies an act of faith.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

The people will perish if their scholars pass away.

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Although we are well aware that we know much that earlier generations did not, we are much less conscious of what they knew that we do not.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.