Top 100 Fool Wise Quotes
#2. The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.
Oscar Wilde
#3. A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Horace
#5. Proverbs 12:15 says, "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice." The
Matt Chandler
#6. Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
Harry Anderson
#7. The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.
Rashi
#8. Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool.
Debasish Mridha
#9. The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
Seneca The Younger
#10. A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
#11. Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.
Amy Grant
#12. Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Blaise Pascal
#13. A wise person is on firm ground,
a fool is on thin ice,
and an evil person is already drowning.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
Oliver Goldsmith
#15. Don't confess to being a fool or a wise man; let others decide for you
Nancy B. Brewer
#16. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.
Dean Koontz
#17. Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.
Bruce Barton
#22. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Anonymous
#23. Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
Marianne Williamson
#24. Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
Jacoby Shaddix
#25. A wise person can do more with one opportunity than a fool with a thousand.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. The fool rushed to certain conclusions.
The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection.
And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
#27. A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. Even a fool may be wise after the event.
Homer
#29. 5-6 blogs is too many for a fool to have; one is enough for a wise person
Tasha Turner
#31. One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
Vladimir Lenin
#32. Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity
Munia Khan
#33. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
#34. Proverbs 15:1-3 1 A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare. 2 The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of a fool belches out foolishness.
Anonymous
#36. A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of
his mind.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#37. Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
Jennifer Melzer
#38. Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
James Stephens
#39. Wise men can learn as much from a fool as from a philosopher. A fool is a splendid book to read from, because every leaf is open before you; there is a dash of the comic in the style, which entices you to read on, and if you gather nothing else, you are warned not to publish your own folly.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.
Keshia Chante
#42. Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
Herman Melville
#43. Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
Philip Sidney
#44. A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.
Robert Breault
#46. Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#47. A wise person learns from the mistakes of others, a normal person learns from their own, and a fool learns nothing, ever.
Robert J. Crane
#48. 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
#49. Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.
Bob Saget
#50. But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.
RZA
#51. 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
#52. The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
Neil Gaiman
#54. Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool.
William Shakespeare
#55. A wise man is the master of his own mind" "A fool is a slave to his" - Publilius Syrus
Gareth F. Baines
#56. It's a wise man who isn't afraid to make a fool of himself every now and then.
Benita J. Prins
#57. Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#58. The wise man is glad to be instructed, but a self-sufficient fool falls flat on his face.
Anonymous
#59. Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
#60. A story is like a nut. A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, think it of little worth. But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meant inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#61. If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
[If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]
George Herbert
#62. I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#64. Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
Harry Anderson
#66. A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.
John Williams
#67. He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.
John Tillotson
#68. A story should, to please, at least seem true,
Be apropos, well told, concise, and new:
And whenso'er it deviates from these rules,
The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
#70. But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!
George MacDonald
#72. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.
Gautama Buddha
#73. A man can be old and a fool
many are
a man can be young and wise
few are
Charles Bukowski
#74. 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
#75. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.
Jim Butcher
#76. The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
Wilkie Collins
#77. Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#78. The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
William Shakespeare
#79. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
Francis Bacon
#80. When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
Frank Herbert
#81. The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.
Dave Hunt
#82. Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#83. A dog to vomit does turn,
A fool to folly but return,
The wise err and learn,
Gaining from each burn.
Munindra Misra
#84. People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#86. A fool is surrounded by blessings, but is chained by folly and thus cannot reach them. A wise person is surrounded by blessings, and has extra-long arms to reach for them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#87. The wise see in the dark;
the foolish are blind, even in light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#88. Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Thomas A. Edison
#90. If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
Seneca The Younger
#91. Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler
#92. She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be "that poor Mrs. Fool" until the day he dies.
Philippa Gregory
#93. My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
Robert Burns
#94. He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Solomon
#95. The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes - and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
Tom Clancy
#97. I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.
Hark Herald Sarmiento
#98. Remember, a wise person moves through his unhappiness alone and whenever he is
happy he shares it with everyone. The fool does the opposite.
Bella Meraki
#99. 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
#100. He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
Voltaire
