Wisdom Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 2

“Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.”

— William Shakespeare

Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.

— William Shakespeare

“My lord, wise men ne’er wail their present woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail.174”

— William Shakespeare

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

— William Shakespeare

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

— William Shakespeare

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

— William Shakespeare

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

— William Shakespeare

“Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh,…

— William Shakespeare

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

— William Shakespeare

There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.

— William Shakespeare

There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain,…

— William Shakespeare

I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly…

— William Shakespeare

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

— William Shakespeare

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

— William Shakespeare

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

— William Shakespeare

“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus…

— William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

— William Shakespeare