Seneca the Younger Quotes

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

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

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 worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

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

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone