Top 100 Quotes About Fool And Wise
#1. Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.
Joe Abercrombie
#7. The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life
In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,
To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.
Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true?
Padraig Pearse
#8. A wise man sees failure as progress.
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
And loses his soul in the process.
Canibus
#9. 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
#10. Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
Anonymous
#11. Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
Ambrose Bierce
#12. Spider rubs his eyes in a way that makes it clear that the weight of both life's experience and the immutability of youth's colossal dumbassedness is presently crushing his very soul.
Wise Young Fool
Sean Beaudoin
#13. 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
#14. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller
#15. 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
#16. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
#17. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not is a student - teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows is asleep - wake him. He who knows and knows he knows is wise - follow him.
Proverb
#18. 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
#19. When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will 'give way' and it is I who will 'fall.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#20. 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
#21. A dog to vomit does turn,
A fool to folly but return,
The wise err and learn,
Gaining from each burn.
Munindra Misra
#22. A true leader always feels that it's truly wise to be considered a fool by those who are not actually nice, and actually not nice to be considered a wise by those who are truly fools.
Anuj
#23. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Anonymous
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. For there will be no memory of the wise man or of the fool; in the days to come all will be forgotten, and alas, the wise man dies the same death as the fool!
Anonymous
#27. 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
#28. A wise person is on firm ground,
a fool is on thin ice,
and an evil person is already drowning.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
#30. A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Horace
#31. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Anonymous
#32. Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
William Shakespeare
#34. Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.
Michael Hyatt
#35. The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#36. 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
#37. Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.
William Shakespeare
#38. He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.
Cristina Marrero
#39. 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
#42. And a Fool is supposed to be wise?
Robin Hobb
#43. 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
#44. Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
Winston Churchill
#45. 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
#46. Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable
Carl Jung
#47. 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
#48. A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.
A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#49. 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
#50. Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was 'easy' over that which was 'right'. And while it's 'right' to admit this to myself, it isn't 'easy.' So, which choice am I going to make this time?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. 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
#52. There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes
#53. Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?
'Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.' Prov. xxvi. 4.
'Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.' Prov. xxvi. 5.
Samuel Grant Oliphant
#54. Love is your master, for he masters you;
And he that is so yoked by a fool,
Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.
William Shakespeare
#55. 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
#56. Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.
George R R Martin
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. The folly and the glory of the world ... the wild, the wise and the wicked ... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and the fool ... the earth, the seas, the wild heavens ... are all part of an endless, unfolding tapestry, woven by time and hemmed by memory.
Brian Holguin
#61. Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.
John Williams
#65. A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
C.S. Lewis
#66. 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
#67. 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
#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
#69. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray
#70. Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
#71. 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. A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.
Donald E. Westlake
#73. A man can be old and a fool
many are
a man can be young and wise
few are
Charles Bukowski
#74. why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?'
'Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.
Raymond E. Feist
#75. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#76. 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
#77. To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.
Ernest Chapman
#79. 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
#80. Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful.
Thomas Keneally
#81. True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
#83. We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.
Rajesh Nanoo
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool.
Seneca.
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.
Pythagoras
#93. Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H.G.Wells
#95. To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
#96. Kent. Who's there?
Fool. Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool.
William Shakespeare
#97. It's a wise man who isn't afraid to make a fool of himself every now and then.
Benita J. Prins
#98. 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
#99. A story is like a nut," Vashet said. "A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, thinking it of little worth." She smiled. "But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meat inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#100. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
Peter Behrens
