A Quote by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
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Mountain gorses, do ye teach us
. . . .
That the wisest word man reaches
Is the humblest he can speak?
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
My favorite part about my job is not that it is never boring; it is that it is always exciting. There is always something new to learn. There is always something interesting to get from someone else. Whether it is an actor, or a sound engineer, there is so much to learn and there will never be nothing to learn. There is always something there.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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