“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”
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George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
“A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.”
Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince
Variant: Variant translation: A prince who is not wise himself cannot be wisely counseled.
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 23; translated by W. K. Marriot
http://www.friesian.com/econ.htm
“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
Hesiod Greek poet
Source: Works and Days and Theogony
“A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.”
Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher
Source: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
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Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)