William Alexander Quotes

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

No one but a fool is always right.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

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

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

I am not young enough to know everything.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

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

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

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.

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

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.