A wise man is a man who knows that he is fool

Introduction                                   

In this Story we will discussion about:

Two fools in Human society, so How can we judge a wise man, and Who is a wise man?

What the wise man does at once what the fool does finally?

From the errors of others, can a wise man correct his own?

Discussion

This quote, which is in its entirety "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool," is attributed to the playwright William Shakespeare. This quote means that a man who is wise understands that he does not know all there is to know. The wisest man realizes

that it is foolish to consider himself all-knowing.

This is related to both knowledge and to experience. The point is that the more you learn, the more you realize that there is always something that you don't know. But also, there are more experiences in life than one person can possibly live. As you see more of the world, you see that what you have been seeing before has been limited. By extension, you have to realize that whatever life you are living now is also limited in some way. You realize that there aren't easy answers to life's difficult questions and to think otherwise, as we often do when we are young and naive, is foolish.

Take math, for instance. If you learn arithmetic, you might feel that you know a lot about math. But, then you will learn that you know nothing about algebra. If you master algebra, you will realize you know nothing about calculus. If you learn calculus, you will find that there are more and more complicated and specific theories in the world. But, while you were first learning arithmetic, you never even realized that calculus existed.

For life's experience, no one can experience everything. No one can be both a man and a woman. No one can be born both rich and poor. There will be things you will never see, things you never do, things that you never experience.

How we see the world and how we make decisions is based on our own knowledge and experiences. But it takes a person with real insight to realize that they don't know everything. The person that says they know everything is actually too ignorant to ask the next question. The person that claims they understand everyone's situation has been living too long looking in the mirror.

Only fools think they are wise, and those who are wise become wise when they start thinking that they are fools. The moment you can feel that you are a fool wisdom has dawned upon you. Now you will change, now there will be transformation, now the possibilities open infinitely... because this is part of the foolish mind -- not to realize the foolishness. And this is the beginning of a wise mind -- to realize one's ignorance, foolishness.

If you realize that you are a fool, this is something worth attaining. The ego cannot exist now. The ego always exists with knowledge ability, one goes on feeling one knows without knowing.

Fools always claim knowledge. Only then, only there through their claim, can they hide their stupidity. So be happy if you feel that you are a fool and you can see your foolishness. The one who can see his foolishness has become separate from it; now foolishness exists apart. It is there but you are separate; you can witness it, you are not identified with it now. Consciously alert, everybody will see that he is a fool.

Conclusion

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

·         A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. 

·         A Hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand man.

·         A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

·         The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in the great cries, to give even his life-knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

·         A wise ma will make more opportunities than he finds.

·         A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. 

General Text

In this world of ours, most men are fools. The fools in human society may be devided under two heads. First those who are really ignorant but always think that they know much and secondly, those who know much and yet think that they know little. The first group of fools may be described as set of inspired fools while the second group of fools are reality, philosophers in disguise.

The fools of the first type are numerous. We often see on the political platform demagogues who play upon the feelings of the mob and mislead men. They think that they understand the deeper political problems of the country in their international context. But the case is just reverse. They freely make use of cheap rhetoric and the other ordinary arts of capturing the mob mind.

In recent times, there has been no doubt a great industrial development in the country. But it is a painful fact that most of the industries are not run on strictly scientific lines. For instance, in some are thrown away as waste material. The managers of those concerns do not know how to apply the latest advanced methods of science to the industry. They inspired fools who think that they know much but, in reality, know little and are fooled to the top of their bent.

Self deception is the greatest of deceptions. Modern psychology, the psychology of Freud, teaches that in the unconscious life of man there various forces which control and guide his waking life; the secrete forces of the unconscious mislead and deceive man in the different spheres of life. A man who says that he does not like flattery often really likes it as Julius Caesar did in Shakespeare`s play. There are many people who having saved some money at the end of their career, desire to in fest it in business with a view to growing rich soon. In reality, they do not know the secrete of business and, inconsequence, lose their money and meet with the disappointment. Lastly, it is a common palace occurrence that may students in the several universities take up subjects for which they have no aptitude and meet with failure at the examination.

A wise man always subject himself to self examination. Every man in this world has strength as well as weakness. Therefore, everyone should practice self criticism in a mood of humility and find out his limitations as well as capabilities. Humility is condition of wisdom. It is said about Newton, the greatest mathematician of England, that, in spite of his deep and vast knowledge of science, he use to say: I am just picking pebbles on the shore of the sea of knowledge.

Stephen Leacock, the well-known political economist of Canada, in his model memoirs, speaks of an eminent Professor, who had worked for fourteen years on the subject of Machiavelli, the great political thinker of Italy. When a Professor published his book on Machiavelli, the book was declared by competent critics as immature and full of wrong judgment. Now the Professor was convinced of the justice of the review was an example of wisdom and humility. The different between knowledge and wisdom is always sharp and clear. Knowledge always makes one proud; it makes one forgets ones` limitation. Wisdom, however, is always humble.

If too much reading, as Solomon said, is weariness of the flesh, excessive knowledge is tyranny of the mind. Wisdom is in fact, the flowering of the spirit. A wise man is he who is ever conscious of the limitations of the mind and walks cautiously of the pathway to reality.

 Vocabulary

·         Described       : a state the characteristics, appearance.

·         Disguise         : Conceal the identity of; make unrecognizable.

·         Numerous      : Many or Consisting of many.

·         Platform         : Declared polity of a political party.

·         Demagogues : Political agigator appealing to mob instincts.

·         Mob               : Disordely crowd.

·         Mislead          :Cause to infer what is not true.

·         Deeper           : Take or become.

·         Reverse          : Turn the other way round or up or inside out.

·         Rhetoric         : Art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.

·         Capturing       : a take prisioner; seize.

·         Recent times : not long past.

·         Painful           : Causing bodily or mental pain.

·         Strictly           : Precisely limited or defined.

·         Bent               : Past and past part.

·         Self deception: Deceiving of oneself.

·         Various          : Different, deserved.

·         Spheres          : Solid figure with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre.

·         Flattery          : Exaggerated or insincere praise.

·         Career            : One`s professional.

·         Inconsequence : Irrelevant, lacking logical sequence, disconnected.

·         Occurrence     : incident or event.

·         Aptitude        :Natural talent.

·         Pebbles           : Small stone worn smooth.

·         Memoirs         : Historical account.

·         Eminent         : Distinguished.

·         Immature       : Not mature.

·         Sharp              : Having an edge or point able to cut or pierce.

·         Humble          : Having or showing low self-esteem.

·         Flesh              : Soft.

·         Tyranny          : Cruel and arbitrary use of authority.

·         Pathway         :Path or its course.