EMPTY WAGON

There is a saying from Plato (427-347 BC) that says, “An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”

A similar tale to Plato’s quote:

“As I walked one day with my father, he suddenly ask me: ‘Besides the song of the birds, do you hear anything else?’

‘Yes, I answered. The noise of a wagon.’

‘Excellent, he said. And it is empty.’

‘Empty? How do you know if you haven’t seen it?’

‘Very easy: because of the noise it makes. The emptier the wagon is, the greater noise it makes.’

The son continues, ‘Since then…when I see someone talking too much, bragging of what he has, and belittling others, I seem to hear my father’s voice: ‘The emptier the wagon is…the greater the noise it makes’”

“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Jesus