Jean de La Fontaine Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• He knows the universe and does not know himself.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Knowledge, Doe, Knows

  Jean de La Fontaine (1965). “The best fables”

• Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Knowledge, Gnats, Example

  "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, II, XVI, March 31, 1668.

• He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Knowledge, Universe

  "Fables", VIII. 26, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 419-23, 1922.

• Let fools the studious despise,
  There's nothing lost by being wise.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Wise, Knowledge, Fool

  Jean de La Fontaine (1853). “The Fables of La Fontaine”, p.187

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