“Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
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“Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.”
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Fragment 2, as quoted in Against the Mathematicians by Sextus Empiricus
Variant translation: So we must follow the common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
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Maxim 236
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Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Sonnet XXX from Fatal Interview (1931)
Context: Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As quoted Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 140, 6 (Fragment 35)
“When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 171
“Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.”
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 60.
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet
As quoted in The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953) by Isaiah Berlin
Variant translations:
The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing.
The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.
The fox knows many tricks; and the hedgehog only one; but that is the best one of all.
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