 XCVI Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. Philosophers have said : — A prudent man will not obtrude his answer till he has the question stated to him in...  The Cashmere Shawl - Seite 91von Charles White - 1840Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Saʻdī - 1823 - 488 Seiten
...mildness upon the " perverse, for rusty iron is not to be polished " with a smooth file." APOPHTHEGM 96. WHOEVER interrupts the conversation of others, to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. Philosophers have said ;— — —... | |
 | Saʻdī, Francis Gladwin, James Ross - 1865 - 390 Seiten
...man of austere countenance ; for rustyiron is not polished with a smooth file. No. LXXXII. WHOSOEVER interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his own wisdom, certainly betrays his ignorance. The sages have said, that a wise man spcaketh not until they ask him a question. Although... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1874 - 496 Seiten
...improperly. Either arrange your words as a man of sense, or else sit quiet like a brute. Whosoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his own wisdom, certainly betrays his ignorance. The sages have said, that a wise man speaketh not until they ask him a question. Although... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1877 - 564 Seiten
...improperly. Either arrange your words as a man of sense, or else sit quiet like a brute. Whosoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his own wisdom, certainly betrays his ignorance. The sages have said, that a wise man speaketh not until they ask him a question. Although... | |
 | سعدي - 1884 - 282 Seiten
...is-'not polished with q, smooth file. RULE, LXXXIL i. ' '!Oi . '.•f1 ".,'.il'' f '•'" WhpsQeyer interrupts the conversation of others to, make a Display of his own wisdom, certainly be'traytS bis .ignorance; Tlve sages have said, 2,44. that ' A wise man speaketh not until they ask... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 472 Seiten
...Any discreet man that was in Mujnun's company would entertain him only with encomiums on Laila. XCVI Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. Philosophers have said : — A prudent... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - 1899 - 474 Seiten
...Any discreet man that was in Mujnun's company would entertain him only with encomiums on Laila. XCVI Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. Philosophers have said : — A prudent... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 Seiten
...questions - just embarrassing answers. Carl Rowan, 7 December 1963, New Yorker [ci. 26:52, 26:163] 26:135 Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. Sadi, 1258, Gulistan [Rose Garden] (trans.... | |
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