Anthropolgy Quotes & Sayings

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can. — Hugh Laurie

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. — Oprah Winfrey

we shall no longer know who we are, or even remember our names — Jose Saramago

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud. — Yuval Noah Harari

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many. — Richard Koch

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words. — Aristotle.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. — Winston Churchill

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. — John Greenleaf Whittier

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world. — Sylvia Plath

Here's the deal: The more you think you're entitled to, the less you will be grateful for. The bigger the sense of entitlement, the smaller the sense of gratitude. We wonder why in our world we keep getting more and more and more and keep being less and less and less grateful. This is precisely why. — John Ortberg

The law of Karma is the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda