Nahj al-Balagha
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Sisyphus, as translated by R. G. Bury, and revised by J. Garrett http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/302/critias.htm <br class="br">Variant translation: He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
Ben Jonson
Misattributed
“Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.”
Isaac Asimov book I, Robot
“Catch That Rabbit”, p. 71
I, Robot (1950)
“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
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning
Alternating Current (1967)
“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Thomas Randolph (poet) (1605–1635) English poet and dramatist
"Necessary Observations", Precept 18
Poems (pub. 1638)
