Invention Quote by Jonathan Swift

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

— Sophocles

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A man who is wise in speech but not in deeds is not wise for me.

— Vikrant Parsai

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

— Anonymous

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

— William Penn

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

— Edmund Burke

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into…

— Baltasar Gracian

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man…

— Gregory Bateson