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There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
— Margaret Of Valois
The wise man is glad to be instructed, but a self-sufficient fool falls flat on his face.
— Anonymous
Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
— Jacoby Shaddix
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
— Benjamin Franklin
Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity — Munia Khan
Kent. Who's there? Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool. — William Shakespeare
Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.
— Gautama Buddha
Don't confess to being a fool or a wise man; let others decide for you
— Nancy B. Brewer
Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
A wise man can be a fool in love.
— Chetan Bhagat
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
— Otto Von Bismarck
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
— Tonny K. Brown
A wise man rules his passions, fool obeys them.
— Publilius Syrus
A wise man alters his misconceptions when he learns the truth; a fool tries to beat the truth into the mold of his misconceptions.
— Sarah A. Chrisman
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
— George Eliot
A wise man seeks much counsel ... a fool listens to all of it.
— Larry Burkett
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
— Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
A clever fool and a foolish wise man.
— George R R Martin
A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.
— Joseph Conrad
Insults from a sage are better than praises from a fool.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
— Thomas Fuller
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.
— Rick Hilles
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus
— Gareth F. Baines
The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1
— Stephen Fry
An insincere wise man has more power than a sincere fool.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.
— Benjamin Franklin
A wise man's questions surpass the answers of the fool, but the silence of the enlightened is divine. Meditation is the key.
— J. Gabriel Gates
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A wise man changes his mind sometimes, but a fool never. To change your mind is the best evidence you have one.
— Desmond Ford
A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control ofhis mind. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare
A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
— Charles Bukowski
The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
— Baltasar Gracian
Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.
— Deborah Harkness
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
What a wise man does with one dollar is greater than what a fool does with ten thousand.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
— Benjamin Whichcote
The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people's mistakes and a fool only learns from his own.
— Duane "Dog" Chapman
A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. Thomas Fuller
— Jessica Shirvington
The wise see in the dark;the foolish are blind, even in light. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise man molds himself - the fool lives only to die.
— Frank Herbert
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
— Thomas Fuller
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
— Thomas Fuller
A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.
— Keshia Chante
the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool 'needs' countless things but can make good use of none of them.
— Donald J. Robertson
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
— Socrates
A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
— Gautama Buddha
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
— Gautama Buddha
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
— Francois Rabelais
Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
— Jennifer Melzer
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
— Doris Lessing
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
— Louis L'Amour
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
— William Blake
A man can be old and a foolmany are
a man can be young and wise
few are — Charles Bukowski
Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
— Saint Francis De Sales
A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
