Wisdom has long been a powerful concept in collective human consciousness.
It has been personified in everything from fairy tales, books, and films, and even embodied in our most honored religious parables. It is a much sought-after trait but it tends to be extremely elusive in the modern world.
The Native American cultures, on other hand, seem to have a strong set of values pertaining to wisdom and have a strong history of transmitting wisdom from generation to generation. The following native American proverbs accentuate the quality of brevity, humility and wisdom:
#1.
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“Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and
start living the life the Creator intended for you.”
#2.
“Not every sweet root gives birth to sweet grass.”
#3.
“Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.”
#4.
“When a man moves away from nature, his heart becomes hard.”
#5.
“Beware of the man who does not talk and the dog that does not bark.”
#6.
“Our pleasures are shallow and our sorrows are deep.”
#7.
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
#8.
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
#9.
“Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.”
#10.
“Remember that your children are not your own, but lent to you by the Creator.”
#11.
“Walk lightly in the spring, mother Earth is pregnant.”
#12.
“Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart.”
#13.
“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”
#14.
“What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night.
It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is Like the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
#15.
“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
#16.
“There are two wolves fighting inside all of us. The first one is evil, the second one is good…Which wolf will win? The one you feed.”
#17.
“It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.”
#18.
“Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.”
#19.
“Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.”
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