"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."
3 likes
Source: Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.43, Univ of California Press
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Huston Smith
"If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race."
"I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience."
"All -isms end up in schisms."
"We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed."
"God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus."