proverb · Words worth keeping
Art and knowledge brings bread and honor.
Art and knowledge brings bread and honor.
Historical period not yet established
Understand the thought
Meaning in plain English
Art and knowledge bringing bread and honour link skill and understanding with livelihood and recognition. The saying values learning through hoped-for practical outcomes.
What the words are saying
The statement is not an employment, income or status guarantee. Access, circumstances and recognition differ, and worthy work can remain poorly rewarded. A useful reading supports learning for its many benefits without treating economic success as proof of merit or hardship as proof of a failure to learn.
Everyday example
Someone develops a skill while realistically considering opportunities and the support needed to use it.
When to use it
Use it to value learning without promising income or recognition.
What it does not mean
No financial outcome or worth ranking from success is established.
Agent-assisted editorial interpretation. This explains the words; it does not by itself verify their author or earliest origin.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Traditional
Attribution: traditional - Country attributed
Denmark
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin.- Historical period
- Historical period not yet established
No sufficiently supported historical placement has been established. Import and download dates are not treated as composition dates. - Recorded source
- Contributor-provided wisdom reference (2014 AD)
Supplied reference B; unit 728; PDF page 68; collection label: Denmark
A collection's publication date can be later than the words it records.
- Culture
- Denmark