Able Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

— Anonymous

A wise man knows his ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything.

— Anonymous

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

— Marvin J. Ashton

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows…

— Sophocles

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a foo

— William Shakespeare

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs…

— Nikolai Gogol

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

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

— Ricardo Reis

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

— Lao Tzu