Shepherd Quotes

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

It is true that American thought is at least disinterested in matters which seem to relate to territorial acquisitions, but when wolves are about the shepherd mustguard his flock, even if he does not himself care for mutton.