Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
If you think my acts are foolishness; the foolishness may be in the fools eye.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.