Unacknowledged Wisdom Quotes

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Teachers have a million stories, but nobody consults them.

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.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!