Claude Debussy Quotes

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

A page of history is worth a volume of logic.

In my experience those who know don’t talk and those who talk don’t know.

History is my biggest teacher.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

his voice was centuries old

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

Some people have nothing but experience.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

A man should carry nature in his head.

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.