Ethnographers Should Try Quotes & Sayings

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink — Saint Augustine

I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads. — Josh Pais

your judgement judges you and defines you — Jean-Paul Sartre

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready. — A.D. Posey

I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity! — Pope Francis

Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as ethnographers try to be, to the shock of the unpredictability and difference of the past, which means open to the possibility of the past living in its insistence on telling its own story and so confounding us. Only in this way can the past teach us something new about ourselves, about the limits of our imaginings and ways of knowing, and even of our particular and distinctive ways of being human. — Robert A. Orsi

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. — Isaac D'Israeli

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot. — Sean O Faolain

If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way. — Jodi Picoult

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. — Clifton Fadiman