Quote by Huston Smith
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. – Huston Smith

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Religion
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Ive spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the worlds religions, and Ive done my homework. Ive gone to each of the worlds eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and Ive apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith. – Huston Smith

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Faith
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Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet. – Huston Smith

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Future
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Knowledge

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. – Khalil Gibran

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Knowledge

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. – Isaac Asimov

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Knowledge

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. – John Millington Synge

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Knowledge

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