In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to...

His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where none was intended.

Whoever among you thinks himself wise must become a fool to be truly wise

If thou be one whose heart the holy forms
Of young imagination have kept pure,
Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride,
Howe'er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt
For any living thing, hath faculties
Which he has never used; that thought with him
Is in its infancy. The man, whose eye
Is ever on himself, doth look on one,
The least of nature's works, one who might move
The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds
Unlawful, ever. O, be wiser thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love,
True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In lowliness of heart.

"Now but before a fool's opinion of himself," the brown man cried, "the Gods are powerless. Oh, yes, and envious, too!"

How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.

If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.