Julius Charles Hare Quotes

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

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

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

'Tis folly to be wise.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

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

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

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The wisest of the wise may err.

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.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.