Quotes About A Wise Man And A Fool

#1. 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

#2. Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool.

William Shakespeare

#3. The only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.

Tom Clancy

#4. 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

#5. One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

Democritus

#6. The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#7. There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Diogenes

#8. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

Anonymous

#9. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Thomas Fuller

#10. Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Mark Twain

#11. A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#12. It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#13. Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#14. 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

#15. A wise man sees failure as progress.
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
And loses his soul in the process.

Canibus

#16. 18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?

Anonymous

#17. If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

Brigham Young

#18. Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#19. You're wrong," Lord Dudley said. "You've always been a fool."
"The fool thinks he is wise," G retorted. "But the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
That was a great line, he thought. He tried to remember where he'd stashed the quill and paper.

Cynthia Hand

#20. 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

#21. Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

Charles Spurgeon

#22. The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

Christie Golden

#23. All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

Vincent Bugliosi

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. What a wise man knows is great,
what a fool knows is little,
and what God knows is infinite.
God does not condemn a man for not knowing,
but condemns a man for knowing and not doing.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. It's a wise man who isn't afraid to make a fool of himself every now and then.

Benita J. Prins

#28. A man can be old and a fool
many are
a man can be young and wise
few are

Charles Bukowski

#29. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to 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.

Jim Butcher

#30. 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

#31. A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.

John Williams

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

George R R Martin

#35. A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

C.S. Lewis

#36. Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#37. The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

Khalil Gibran

#38. To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ben Jonson

#39. A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.

Pythagoras

#40. A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

Barry Hughart

#41. A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

George R R Martin

#42. A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#43. He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Confucius

#44. 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

#45. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Anonymous

#46. 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