Book of Job Quotes

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

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

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

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

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

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

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

… no one can have lived in the world without observing that most people, when in prosperity, are so over-brimming with wisdom (however inexperienced they may be), that they take every offer of advice as a personal insult, whereas in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.