A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare
I love this quote. I just love it. It is so true, because the reason one is a fool is because one does not know it, and does not try to improve it, but when you are wise, then you know you are foolish sometimes and you try to change. Also, in the Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer A. Nielsen, the main character is witty, and is extremely smart (Nielsen uses foreshadowing and hints very well, and often Jaron surprises us with a sudden insight that he does not tell us, but that we should have assumed by the descriptions he gives us, e.g. This boy has very well fit shoes, which are the only thing that fit him, then later on, he puts himself in a trap and reveals to us then that he KNEW that the boy had powerful friends, because he had assumed--and was right--that they boy was a runner based on this fact about his shoes) but he says that as opposed to the foolish who don't admit they are foolish, he knows and readily admits that was he is doing is foolish yet he does it anyway because he has no choice (and somehow, he always pulls it off).
The Ascendance Trilogy consists of The False Prince, The Runaway King, and the third book which has yet to be published. They are actually really easy, but the plots are SOOOOO SOOOOO GOOD! They are set in a fictional country, Carthya, with surrounding countries Avenia and... a country that begins with B, whose name I forgot. It is set in a monarchy-style 14th century kind of atmosphere.
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