Famous Sayings - Quotes Can Make People Smarter

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

-Sir Winston Churchill

A quick comment about this quote:

If you don’t believe this one, then you must not know the life of Malcolm X. Malcolm X read quotes from Mahatma Ghandi amongst others. This made him educated and helped him to intelligently communicate with his contemporaries. This teaches us a valuable lesson about the value of quotes.

Quotes are a summary of a lesson on the knowledge and learning of something important. In one short sentence, a quote gives us thousand words. Just like a picture, which is said to be worth a thousand words, “a quote is worth a thousand words” just as a picture is worth a thousand words.

The Bible is translates as a “book of books”. It is the ultimate book of quotes that God gave man. Each quote it with a thousand words. Entire commentaries have been written on the Bible, to include entire books for a single book, chapter or even verse.

The wisdom of Churchill’s words tell us that education can begin to take place through quotations and provide an inspiring foundation for the beginning of someone’s education.

What to do with this famous saying:

Teach your kids a quote, ask them if they know what it means, then teach them what it means. I did this once with my nephew who was 13 at the time. The quote was the title of a book, and it said “beware the naked man who offers you his shirt” I asked my nephew if he knew what that meant and he just gave me a strange look like what on earth are you doing reading a book with a title like that”?

I told him, think about it for a moment…beware…a naked man….yet offers you a shirt. What is that trying to say? He thought about it for a bit and said, the naked man doesn’t have a shirt to give. I said “Good!…you’re absolutely right”

So what is this saying? He came back with, if the naked man offers you a shirt he doesn’t have, then he’s lying. I said exactly. The naked man wouldn’t have a shirt to offer…so that’s like someone making a promise they can’t keep. Then he understood.

The point of all of this is simply that a single quote can tell us a lot while stating a little. Such efficiency of words is wise and that's what makes quotes so unique.

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