“The wisest man is he who is certain he is not.”

“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”

“The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.”

“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

“After reading between the lines, I can secretly hear Socrates screaming: 'I'm the wisest man to ever live in the world. Anyone who will claim that title after me he's fake!”

“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”

“He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.”

“He was so crafty and cunning in petty things, as the circumventing of any great man, the change of a Favourite, &c. insomuch as a very wise man was wont to say that he believed him the wisest fool in Christendom, meaning him wise in small things, but a fool in weighty affairs.”

“It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.”