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“And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.”

Poor Ignorance Fool Wiser

Book:Faust: A Tragedy

Source: Faust: A Tragedy

“Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.”

Wise Dangerous Fool Wiser

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.”

Thinking Men Wisdom Greater Wise He Man Fool Suspects Wiser

Author:Margaret of Valois

“Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.”

“A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.”

Men House Fool Wiser Sage Another Man

Book:The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

“GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.”

Source: The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems

“I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.”

Philosophy Poor Fool Cost Labor Medicine Theology Wiser Alas Ardent Jurisprudence

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)