William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

No one but a fool is always right.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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.

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

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

No man can see his own prejudices.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.