Quotes by : Parker J. Palmer

When I give something I do not possess, I give a false and dangerous gift, a gift that looks like love....

I value ethical standards, of course. But in a culture like ours – which devalues or dismisses the....

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of....

In true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving....

If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot....

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

The message of such silence is simple: "we the people" will no longer conspire in supporting the illusions....

If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually....

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.....