Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Homo unius libri ("(a) man of one book") is a Latin phrase attributed to Thomas Aquinas in a literary tradition going back to at least the 17th century, bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) being the earliest known writer in English to have done so. Saint Thomas Aquinas is reputed to have employed the phrase "hominem unius libri timeo" (meaning "I fear the man of a single book").There are other attributions, and variants of the phrase.Variants include cave for timeo, and virum or lectorem for hominem.The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (London 1998), attributes the quote to Augustine of Hippo.Other attributions named Pliny the Younger, Seneca, Quintilian or Augustine, but the existence of the phrase cannot be substantiated as predating the early modern period.The phrase was in origin a dismissal of eclecticism, i.e. the "fear" is of the formidable intellectual opponent who has dedicated himself to and become a master in a single chosen discipline; however, the phrase today most often refers to the interpretation of expressing "fear" of the opinions of the illiterate man who has "only read a single book"."@en }
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- Homo_unius_libri abstract "Homo unius libri ("(a) man of one book") is a Latin phrase attributed to Thomas Aquinas in a literary tradition going back to at least the 17th century, bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) being the earliest known writer in English to have done so. Saint Thomas Aquinas is reputed to have employed the phrase "hominem unius libri timeo" (meaning "I fear the man of a single book").There are other attributions, and variants of the phrase.Variants include cave for timeo, and virum or lectorem for hominem.The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (London 1998), attributes the quote to Augustine of Hippo.Other attributions named Pliny the Younger, Seneca, Quintilian or Augustine, but the existence of the phrase cannot be substantiated as predating the early modern period.The phrase was in origin a dismissal of eclecticism, i.e. the "fear" is of the formidable intellectual opponent who has dedicated himself to and become a master in a single chosen discipline; however, the phrase today most often refers to the interpretation of expressing "fear" of the opinions of the illiterate man who has "only read a single book".".