“Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.”
Christine de Pizan (1365–1430) Italian French late medieval author
Arad Doman saying
(15 October 1993)
“Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.”
Christine de Pizan (1365–1430) Italian French late medieval author
“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Ceremonies and Respect
Essays (1625)
Variant: Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Source: The Essays
“Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.”
Philo (-15–45 BC) Roman philosopher
54.
Every Good Man is Free
“The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.”
Fernando de Rojas La Celestina
Act II.
La Celestina (1499)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn
Pt. I, The Poet's Tale: The Birds of Killingworth, st. 9.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“253. A foole knowes more in his house then a wise man in another's.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)