Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Kate Horsley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Kate Horsley.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Kate Horsley

Kate Horsley is the pen name of Kate Parker, an American author of numerous works of historical fiction, three of which are rooted in the Old West. Parker is also a professor of English at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque. Much of her work has been influenced by Zen after reading material by Alan Watts.

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas. — © Kate Horsley
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.
Knowledge often spoils devotion.
I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.
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