Archilochus Quotes

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Specialization is for insects.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.