Bahaullah Quotes

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

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

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

The bulk of mankind, even in those nations which are most celebrated for learning and wisdom, are still carried down the torrents of superstition, and entertain very unworthy apprehensions

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

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

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

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

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.