The Unvarnished Truth

[n2doc]

[LAGC]

1. Shamelessly plagiarized!

[The Wielding Truth]

2. A little different wording. Same meaning.

Jaggi Vasudev quotes (showing 1-5 of 5)
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”
― Jaggi Vasudev

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/30378.Jaggi_Vasudev

[LAGC]

3. I think Bertrand beat him by a few decades...

"Great minds" and all that...

[pscot]

4. Yeats got there first

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

[Octafish]

5. Socrates is said to have brought up the idea.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

via Plato...

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

[pscot]

6. All things are wearisome;

Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing. That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. Verily there I no new thing under the Sun. Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new "? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us

[Octafish]

7. Much wisdom, much grief;

the more knowledge, the more sorrow.

[bahrbearian]

8. A closed mind is Certain,,Dean Spanly