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Fools put trust in promises; The wise in action.
— A. Spencer
The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning, but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure" (CJB, Ecclesiastes 7:4).
— H.W. Charles
Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
— Benjamin Franklin
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.
— Benjamin Franklin
How wise are they that are but fools in love!
— Josh Cooke
Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity — Munia Khan
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
— Isaac D'Israeli
... a hundred fools together will not make one wise man.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.
— Curtis Jackson
20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
— Anonymous
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
— Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.
— Tara Brown
Fools are wise until they speak.
— Randle Cotgrave
You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticismunless the criticized isn't within earshot. — William Faulkner
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
— Samuel Palmer
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."
— Al Yankovic
Avoid impious people,run from fools,
seek out the wise. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
— Pope Boniface VIII
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
CELIA: For since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes great a show.
— William Shakespeare
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
— Jay-Z
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
— Martin Luther
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
— Alexander Pope
The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Liars corrupt knowledge,and fools pervert wisdom,
but the wise hallow both.
Knowledge holds the truth. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
— Paulo Coelho
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
— William Congreve
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
— E. Haldeman-Julius
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
— Nelson Mandela
Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
— Thomas Hobbes
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men
— Theodor Reik
A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.
— Debasish Mridha
Truth imprisons fools, but sets the wise free.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.
— Michel De Montaigne
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
— Duke Of Wellington
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
— Tecumseh
Let fools the studious despise,There's nothing lost by being wise. — Jean De La Fontaine
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
— William Shakespeare
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
— John Tillotson
Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Though the masters make the rulesFor the wise men and the fools,
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to. — Bob Dylan
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
— David C. Stark
Fools do not acknowledge God,the proud reject Him,
the wise embrace Him,
and the righteous worship Him. — Matshona Dhliwayo
A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate.
— Debasish Mridha
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something
— Aristotle.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
— Plato
What the wise acquire easily fools only acquire miraculously.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
— John Donne
The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools.
— Santosh Kalwar
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
— Francis Bacon
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
— Napoleon Hill
The folly of the wise is better than the wisdom of fools.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
What other men fear should make you bold;what makes other men fools should make you wise. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
— Francis Bacon
Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
— Ambrose Bierce
Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as silence.
— Michael J. Sullivan
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The wise pause; the foolish react.
— Todd Stocker
The wise men were all fools, what to do?
— Bruce Springsteen
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
— Benjamin Franklin
Wise men change, fools stay the same.
— Kevin Gates
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
— Linji Yixuan
What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!
— George R R Martin