A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
English - Writer
1780 - 1832

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Nathanael Emmons

. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.

Ernest Holmes

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

William Shakespeare

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Margaret of Valois

Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.

Miguel de Unamuno

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

William Hazlitt

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Helen Rowland

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.