Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
– Criss Jami
Related Quotes:
- It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man. – VE Schwab
- Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
- A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. – George Bernard Shaw
- Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. – Criss Jami
- A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. – Dgen
- A fool thinks he is always right, a wise person always doubts himself. – Debasish Mridha
- The wise man sees the fool & laughs & the fool never knows why – Jovie Sumner
- I think she’s too single for me, and she thinks I’m with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think. – Will Advise
- Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman
- A fool can’t help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all. – DaShanne Stokes
- A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool. – Debasish Mridha
- The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice. – Felix Wantang
- A wise man’s goal shouldn’t be to say something profound, but to say something useful. – Criss Jami
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy
- In essence, Satan doesn’t want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you. – Ralph Harris
- The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good. – Criss Jami
- A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all – but loving only himself. – Criss Jami
- The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity. – Criss Jami
- When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool. – Criss Jami
- If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him. – Criss Jami
- Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. – Criss Jami
- A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough. – Robert Jordan
- Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. – Criss Jami
- A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little. – Criss Jami
- The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. – Christopher Hitchens
- To fear man’s judgment more than God’s judgment is to fear man more than God. – Criss Jami
- The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep – Edgar Watson Howe
- Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
- The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. – Benjamin Franklin
- The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out. – Wilkie Collins
- Folly plots a fool’s death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A wise man’s sorrow is better than a fool’s happiness. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave. – Publilius Syrus
- What the wise man knows he questions but what the fool believes he sees. – Jason Versey
- A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge. – Tonny K Brown
- Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool – Seneca
- Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop. – Deborah Harkness
- I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you. – Ziad K Abdelnour