Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.