Ordinariness Quote by Alan Jacobs

“A wise man is the one who is able to see the foolishness in his thought.”

— Kwesi Ackah

“The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The least of Nature's works, one who might move The wise man…

— William Wordsworth

“A wise man differs from the ordinary; in understanding, knowing and experiencing what Truth is all about.”

— Gian Kumar

“The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”

— Frank Herbert

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not in the…

— G.K. Chesterton

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned…

— Edmund Burke

“... wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.”

— Hermann Hesse

“For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.”

— Bram Stoker

“exactly to those paths which others have taken, or attain to the virtues of those whom they would resemble, the wise man should always…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?”

— Sorin Cerin

“Unless there is light, there remains darkness; similarly, unless a man has self-knowledge, he remains a fool.”

— Shiva Negi