Whetstone Quotes
12 quotes by 10 authors
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
— Roger Ascham
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
— William Shakespeare
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A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
— Zoroaster
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Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its…
— Samuel Rutherford
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The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
— John Lyly
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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt…
— Ernest Hemingway
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A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
— George R. R. Martin
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You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara) You don’t ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone…
— George R. R. Martin
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I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break…
— Veronica Roth
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Let the master praise him, and say, Here ye do well. For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit,…
— Roger Ascham
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Mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone.
— Tyrion Lannsiter
Who Wrote These Whetstone Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 12 Whetstone Quotes as follows: