Common Quote by Roger Ascham

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as…

— Roger Ascham

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

— Aristotle

“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks…

— Anonymous

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

— William Butler Yeats

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

— Thomas Hobbes

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

— Aristotle

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except…

— Anonymous

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

— Socrates

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

— Anonymous

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

— Anonymous

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wise men speak because they have something to say

— Plato