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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. — Archilochus

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

In the original Greek

πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα

Archilochus
600 BC
★ 3.7
Provenance
Current citation
Archilocus. Quoted in The Fox and the Hedgehog, written by Isaiah Berlin. Princeton University Press, 2013.
Original citation
Archilocus. The Fox and the Hedgehog. c. 650, fragment 103.

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