All Sayings

25 sayings found from the Medieval era from 25 authors

Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights.

— Pope Urban II 1095
Wisdom

Take care that none of them escapes.

— Charlemagne c. 880-887 (recorded)
Wisdom

I have taken England with both my hands.

— William the Conqueror 1066
Wisdom

Well, what do you think? Am I he?

— Richard the Lionheart c. 1190s
Wisdom

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.

— Kabir 15th Century
Nature & World

Beware the man of a single book.

— Thomas Aquinas Unknown
Wisdom

The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

— Li Bai c. 701-762 CE
Nature & World

Saddened by the times I weep at the flowers tormented by the partings even the birds startle my heart.

— Du Fu c. 757 CE
Art & Creativity

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

— Murasaki Shikibu c. 1000-1012 CE
Inspirational

You will not know a detail of the mysteries of existence, as long as you are not disoriented in the circle of existence.

— Hafez c. 1325-1390 CE
Wisdom

And al was conscience and tendre herte.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
Educational

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

— Genghis Khan Unknown
Wisdom

Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them.

— Johannes Gutenberg 1450s
Wisdom

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 1027
Educational

What is easiest is best in calculation.

— Al-Khwarizmi 830
Wisdom

There are four chief obstacles to grasping truth: authority, habit, popular opinion, and the concealment of ignorance.

— Roger Bacon 1267
Power & Leadership

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

— Ibn Battuta c. 1350s
Wisdom

The greatest evil that can befall men is that they should consider themselves as perfect.

— Maimonides c. 1190
Life & Death

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

— Rumi 13th Century
Nature & World

Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
Wisdom
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