William Shakespeare Quotes About Wisdom

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Wisdom, Prayer

• The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  1599 Antony. Julius Caesar, act 3, sc.2, l.74-86.

• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

• So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Wise

  'Richard III' (1591) act 3, sc. 1, l. 79

• Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Filth, Goodness

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 38

• With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Judging, Impossible

• Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Men, Cry

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.165

• There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

• To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Character, Men

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.165, Classic Books Company

• For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [163]

• Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Waiting, Cold

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289

• As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Wisdom, Age

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.369

• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

• Wisdom and fortune combating together,
  If that the former dare but what it can,
  No chance may shake it.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Together, May

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Sir Thomas Hanmer (1771). “The Plays of Shakespeare from the Text of Dr. S. Johnson: With the Prefaces, Notes, Etc. of Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson and Select Notes from Many Other Critics ; Also, the Introduction of the Last Editor Mr. Capell; and a Table Shewing His Various Readings ...”, p.77

• The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Wisdom

  1599-1600 Touchstone toWilliam. AsYou Like It, act 5, sc.1, l.29-31.

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