| 1. | Forthwith I heard "If thus, whate'er by learning men attain, Were understood, the sophist would want room To exercise his wit.. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 2. | The sophists of the negative school who, through inability to create, have scoffed at creation, are now found the loudest in applause. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | And you who wrest old images from the burial earth The brainsick words of sophists Antisthenes. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | --The leaning of sophists towards the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity, John Eglinton detected. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |