Instinct Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

— Pliny the Elder

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

— Oscar Wilde

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of…

— Luc de Clapiers

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet…

— Thomas Hobbes

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

— Plato

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

— Heraclitus

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their…

— Roger L'Estrange

Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance

— Bible

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have…

— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide with realities,…

— Laozi