Quotes of yore.
" People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach. "
Marguerite de Navarre
" Lying is a thriving vocation. "
Susanna Centlivre
" The first key to wisdom is defined, of course, as frequent and assiduous questioning. "
Peter Abelard
" The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears. "
Geoffrey Chaucer
" For even he who is most greedy for knowledge can achieve no greater perfection than to be thoroughly aware of his own ignorance in his particular field. The more be known, the more aware he will be of his ignorance. "
Nicholas of Cusa
" Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear. "
Isidore of Seville
" A tale is but half told when only one person tells it. "
The Saga of Grettir The Strong
" When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. "
Leon Battista Alberti
" Nothing good ever comes of violence. "
Martin Luther
" What is better than wisdom? Woman. What is better than a good woman? Nothing. "
Geoffrey Chaucer
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