Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

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

Stories always seem to get better with age.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

Folktales are real.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

The ancients called happy those who learned caution from the danger of others

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are preserved by quotations.