Apache Wisdom Quotes

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

Knowledge of places is closely linked to knowledge of the self, to grasping one's position in the larger scheme of things, including one's own community, and to securing a confident sense of who one is a person.

You can’t live long without water and you can’t live a long time without wisdom. You need to drink both.

one must acknowledge that local understandings of external realities are fashioned from local cultural materials, and that, knowing little or nothing of the latter, one’s ability to make appropriate sense of “what is” and “what occurs” in another’s environment is bound to be deficient.

The woman was given two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly above the serpents and sharp talons to make them her dinner.

Your gang follows you," her mother had told her once, "but that doesn't mean you drag them into every battle--you save them for the war.

Apache Blessing . May the sun bring you new energy by day, May the moon softly restore you by night, May the rain wash away your worries, May the breeze blow new strength into your being, May you walk gently through the world, and know it's beauty all the days of your life!

Apache Blessing . May the sun bring you new energy by day, May the moon softly restore you by night, May the rain wash away your worries, May the breeze blow new strength into your being, May you walk gently through the world, and know it's beauty all the days of your life!” ― Apache Wisdom