
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 233
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
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.”
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Misattributed
Niebla [Mist] (1914)
Context: Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself — that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks — he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech — this thing that they call a social product — was made for lying.
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
“The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.”
Source: War in Heaven (1998), P. 175
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”
Tanto è miser l'uom quant' ei si riputa.
Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Mind".
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden
“It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 270