Evident Quote by William Blake

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

— William Shakespeare

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

— William Hazlitt

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

— Patricia Wentworth

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

— Ivan Panin

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the…

— Henry Louis Mencken

“Truth is for earnest seekers, not for those of idle curiosity. It is easy to believe when one sees; there is nothing then to…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

— Karl G. Maeser

“that the truth often lies below the surface, and a man may be a great deal more than his most easily caricatured characteristics”

— Salman Rushdie

“The 'fool' is an innocent, a simpleton, but truths issue from his mouth that are not simply tolerated but adopted, by virtue of the…

— Jacques Lacan