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Jean de La Fontaine Quotes about Knowledge

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

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

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.

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