Forgotten Wisdom Quotes

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Herb Brown is like a basketball icon. What's the saying - he's forgotten more than I'll ever know.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

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.

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.