False wisdom Quotes

The devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because reason is the Devil's greatest whore.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

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.

It's easy to be an educated fool.

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lorship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

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

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

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

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

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