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American journalist and author 1937–2005Related quotes
“A word to the wise is enough.”
Dictum sapienti sat est.
Persa, Act IV, scene 7, line 19
Variant translation: A sentence is enough for a sensible man. (translator unknown)
More commonly found as Verbum sapienti (same meaning) and abbreviated to verb. sap. ; proverbially, “A word to the wise is sufficient”
Persa (The Persian)
“6164. To the Wise
A Word may suffice.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.”
Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
“Good wits jump; 45 a word to the wise is enough.”
Variant: Good wits jump; 45 a word to the wise is enough.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 38.
“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.”
"The Weaver and the Worm", The New Yorker ( 11 August 1956 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1956/08/11/1956_08_11_019_TNY_CARDS_000252308); Further Fables for Our Time (1956)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
“It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.”
Fragment 50, as translated in the Loeb Classics edition http://www.loebclassics.com/view/heracleitus_philospher-universe/1931/pb_LCL150.471.xml?rskey=IyhfrN&result=8
Variant translations:
Listening not to me but to reason, it is wise to agree that all is one.
Listening not to me but to the Word it is wise to agree that all things are one.
He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one.
The word translated in these quotes and many others as "The Word" or "Reason", is the greek word λόγος (Logos).
Numbered fragments
“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”