Portuguese Proverb Quotes

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

There are no wise few.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

It's always best when everyone in the group is on the same page.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The best vision is insight.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.