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If a person seeks wisdom, he is clever, but if he thinks he has found it, then he is mad. Persian proverb

Leo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: New Translation (Alma Classics)

Grâce à ses observations, ce Newton prendrait conscience d’une vérité douloureuse que tout le monde sait plus ou moins mais veut rarement admettre : les gens sont des menteurs. Nous mentons tous, c’est ancré dans nos habitudes3. Nous mentons sur des choses importantes et sur des broutilles – non par méchanceté, mais parce que nous nous sommes habit

Mark Manson • Tout est foutu: Un livre sur l'espoir (French Edition)

Every conversation has multiple layers. Some people hide behind masks. Others lie to others (and themselves). And others say one thing with their mouth and another with their body. It only takes seeing through one of these layers for somebody to call you a genius.

David Perell • Tweet

“Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

Even the Mirror Will Lie to You About What We Really Are…

“Zeno would also say that nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.23

Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

“In the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.

SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations

The fool has more hope of wisdom than the man who calls himself wise. Proverbs 26

lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions

Do not give way to every common Impulse. He is a great man who never allows himself to be influenced by the impressions of others. Self-reflection is the school of wisdom. To know one’s disposition and to allow for it, even going to the other extreme so as to find the juste milieu between nature and art. Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-impr