“By Silence, the discretion of a man is known: and a fool, keeping Silence, seemeth to be wise.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
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Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Le silence est l'esprit des sots<br>Et l'une des vertus du sage. <br class="br">Bernard de Bonnard, "Le Silence," http://books.google.com/books?id=9gAvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR14&dq=%22Et+l%27une+des+vertus+du+sage%22+Bonnard&ei=iyzvR-bFOIa4zASV0PyoBQ#PPA244,M1 L'Almanach des Muses (1776) <br class="br">Misattributed
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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 49
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“253. A foole knowes more in his house then a wise man in another's.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Misattributed
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 72.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)