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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
— Huangbo Xiyun
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
— Robert Bloch
Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity — Munia Khan
But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal
— Martha Finley
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
— Francois Rabelais
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
— Samuel Johnson
Publicity is just a foolish act done by wise people confidently, to fool the world.
— Pratik Akkawar
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
— Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
— Algernon Blackwood
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line,' and we showed up with an eraser?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
— Ambrose Bierce
There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.
— Shunryu Suzuki
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
— Adlai Stevenson I
In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).
— Gary Chapman
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
— Thomas Carlyle
The wise respond.The foolish react.The wise think and then act.The foolish act and then regret.-RVM
— R.v.m.
A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
God bless our good and gracious King,Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one. — John Wilmot
A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive.A Foolish Man Surrenders Every Thing Forcefully At The Time Of Death. — Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A dog to vomit does turn,A fool to folly but return,
The wise err and learn,
Gaining from each burn. — Munindra Misra
I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
The wise are greatly revered,the righteous are exceedingly honored,
and the foolish are repeatedly disgraced. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men
— Theodor Reik
The foolish experience much,but learn little.
The wise experience little,
but learn much. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
— Sakyong Mipham
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
— Hermann Hesse
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
— Albert Einstein
The wise see in the dark;the foolish are blind, even in light. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another.
— Phoenix Desmond
We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren't perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.
— W. Somerset Maugham
A foolish rabbit is endeared by a foxes' smile.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.
— Don Bradley
A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Wise men verifies the truth of what they heard, foolish men makes conclusion based on what they heard".
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
It is better to appear foolish serving God than to appear wise serving the devil.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
— Gottfried Leibniz
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
— Michel De Montaigne
If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
— Finley Peter Dunne
In a wise community a wise man would not seem foolish!
— Bertrand Russell
The wise are in the light,moving forward;
the foolish are in the dark,
moving backwards. — Matshona Dhliwayo
In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise pause; the foolish react.
— Todd Stocker
Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
— Baron De Montesquieu
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
— Allan Lokos
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
— James Oppenheim
You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
— Michael Ende
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay