Miguel de Cervantes Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Long

• Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

• It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.228

• Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wisdom, Wicked, Virtue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.449, Collector's Library

• There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wisdom, Horse, Grandmother

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.758, Modern Library

• Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wisdom, Fall, Men

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