Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

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

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

The wise speak only of what they know

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.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

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.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

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

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

I'm not very wise to many things.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

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.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.