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Jean de La Fontaine Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge
  • He knows the universe and does not know himself.

    Jean de La Fontaine (1965). “The best fables”
  • Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

    "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, II, XVI, March 31, 1668.
  • Let fools the studious despise,
    There's nothing lost by being wise.

    Jean de La Fontaine (1853). “The Fables of La Fontaine”, p.187
  • He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

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

Jean de La Fontaine

  • Born: July 8, 1621
  • Died: April 13, 1695
  • Occupation: Poet
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