刺猬 vs 狐狸
The hedgehog and the fox
“ 狐狸 多才多藝 ，刺猬 只會一件看家本領 。”
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows ONE BIG thing".
Berlin expands upon this idea to divide writers and thinkers into two categories:
hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea (examples given include Plato, Lucretius, Dante, Pascal, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Proust) and
foxes who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea (examples given include Herodotus, Aristotle, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Molière, Goethe, Pushkin, Balzac, Joyce, Anderson).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox
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