Ben Jonson Wise Quotations

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.