“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)
Hello Magazine (2009)
“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
Misattributed
“The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.”
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i.
Books
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)