“He was passionate and thought he was wise; I was a fool and suspected it; I was nearer to wisdom.”
Il était passionné et se croyait sage; j'étais folle, mais je m'en doutais, et, sous ce point de vue, j'étais plus près que lui de la Sagesse.
Maximes et Pensées, #562
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“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
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The Fourfold Treasure (1871) No. 991 http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0991.htm

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)