Johann Gottfried von Herder Quotes

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.