Contrast Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

— Anonymous

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is…

— Euripides

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

“He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of…

— James Joyce

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

— Michel de Montaigne

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

— Lao Tzu

“Even those who have an air of being wise judge of others only, and do not know themselves. It cannot be in reason to…

— Yoshida Kenko

“There you have Socrates’ wisdom; [b] he himself isn’t willing to teach, but he goes around learning from others and isn’t even grateful to…

— Plato

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.

— Kane Arreo