“… Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.”
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Prisoner of Cell 25
“The genes harbor their own wisdom and their own inertia.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The genes harbor their own wisdom and their own inertia." by Kevin Kelly?
Kevin Kelly141
American author and editor 1952Related quotes
“Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 2, as quoted in Against the Mathematicians by Sextus Empiricus
Variant translation: So we must follow the common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
Numbered fragments
William Law (1686–1761) English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer
The Power of the Spirit (1898), edited by Andrew Murray, further edited by Dave Hunt (1971) Ch. 6 : The Church : A Habitation of the Spirit.
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.”
Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“The world is the book where the eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts”
Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet
"Modo di filosofare".
Ingrid de Kok (1951) South African writer
"Body maps," http://www.oulitnet.co.za/multimedia/vonkverse_ingrid2.asp from Seasonal Fires: Selected and New Poems (2006), a contribution for the WikiAfrica Literature Project.
“You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.”
Alastair Reynolds book The Prefect
Source: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 10 (p. 125)