„That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.“
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— George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
„A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.“
— Niccolo Machiavelli, buch Der Fürst
Variante: Variant translation: A prince who is not wise himself cannot be wisely counseled.
Quelle: The Prince (1513), Ch. 23; translated by W. K. Marriot
http://www.friesian.com/econ.htm
„But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.“
— Hesiod Greek poet
Quelle: Works and Days and Theogony
„A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.“
— Dogen Japanese Zen buddhist teacher 1200 - 1253
Quelle: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
„The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.“
— Anatole France French writer 1844 - 1924
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Misattributed
„The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.“
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Quelle: As You Like It (1599–1600)
— Hesiod, buch Werke und Tage
Original: (el) Οὗτος μὲν πανάριστος, ὃς αὐτὸς πάντα νοήσει,
φρασσάμενος, τά κ᾽ ἔπειτα καὶ ἐς τέλος ᾖσιν ἀμείνω·
ἐσθλὸς δ᾽ αὖ καὶ κεῖνος, ὃς εὖ εἰπόντι πίθηται·
ὃς δέ κε μήτ᾽ αὐτὸς νοέῃ μήτ᾽ ἄλλου ἀκούων
ἐν θυμῷ βάλληται, ὁ δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀχρῄος ἀνήρ.
Quelle: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 293.
— Giacomo Casanova Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725 - 1798
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
„Youth is always right. Those who follow the counsels of youth are wise.“
— Stefan Zweig Austrian writer 1881 - 1942
Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)
„Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.“
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet laureate 1809 - 1892
Stanza 124
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
„A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.“
— Michel De Montaigne, buch Essays
Book I, Ch. 38. Of Solitude
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Karl Jaspers German psychiatrist and philosopher 1883 - 1969
Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy (1951) as translated by Ralph Mannheim, Ch. 1, What is Philosophy?, p. 12
Variant translation: It is the search for the truth, not possession of the truth which is the way of philosophy. Its questions are more relevant than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.
Kontext: The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. … Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.
„He who obeys, does not listen to himself!“
— Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Also sprach Zarathustra
Quelle: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
„Man is wise … when he recognises no greater enemy than himself.“
— Marguerite de Navarre, buch Heptaméron
Third Day, Novel XXX
L'Heptaméron (1558)
„A wise man travels to discover himself.“
— James Russell Lowell American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819 - 1891
„Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.“
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
— Euripidés, Bellerophon
Bellerophon, Fragment 298; quoted in Plutarch's Morals : Ethical Essays (1888) edited and translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, p. 293
