Top 100 Quotes About Wise Fools: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Wise Fools

#1. I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious ... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Thomas Huxley

#2. If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

Bruce Sterling

#3. The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

Helen Keller

#4. Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we must be either sinners who think we are saints, or saints who know we are sinners. Even

Peter Kreeft

#5. Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it.

Neville Goddard

#6. A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

Gene Wolfe

#7. Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

Pope Boniface VIII

#9. The world is better shaped by freedom. Even if it means giving foolish men their head. At the heart of all things, nestled among Yggdrasil's roots, is the trick of creation that puts to shame all of Loki's deceptions. What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise. "Go

Mark Lawrence

#10. Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Cato The Younger

#11. Though the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools,
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Bob Dylan

#12. What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.

Mark Lawrence

#13. Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Nelson Mandela

#14. The fool who knows his folly
Becomes wise by that fact.
But the fool who thinks he's wise -
He's called 'a fool' indeed!

Anonymous

#15. God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools ... and He has not been disappointed.

Antonin Scalia

#16. We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

Alethea Kontis

#17. Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#18. True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#19. Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

#20. 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

#21. The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Charles Caleb Colton

#23. Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

Benjamin Franklin

#24. Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain
adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

Mark Twain

#25. The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Oscar Wilde

#26. The folly of the wise is better than the wisdom of fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.

Lemony Snicket

#28. Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#29. 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

#30. Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.

David C. Stark

#31. Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Jack Ma

#32. 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

#33. The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#34. He hadn't deserved the sort of love and loyalty Blue had given him without question since they'd been mere boys. Two rebellious kids with only one another to depend on in the whole world. Senseless or wise, they had both been fools in the end.

A.M. Daily

#35. Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

Theodor Reik

#36. Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.

Izaak Walton

#37. 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

#38. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

H. Rider Haggard

#39. Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Michel De Montaigne

#40. Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Laurence J. Peter

#41. I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

#42. Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Benjamin Franklin

#43. Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.

Will Henry

#44. The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#46. The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended up making their hearers wise.

Okakura Kakuzo

#47. it is only among fools that the wise are judged to be destitute of wisdom.

Anonymous

#48. Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

Cinda Williams Chima

#49. Only the wise know folly; fools know neither wisdom nor folly. Just as it takes wisdom to know folly, light to know darkness, it takes profundity to know vanity, meaning to know meaninglessness.

Peter Kreeft

#50. Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!

Anthony Liccione

#51. He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Solomon

#52. Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

#53. they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ROM1.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Anonymous

#54. The wise men were all fools, what to do?

Bruce Springsteen

#55. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin

#56. Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

Wim Wenders

#57. How wise are they that are but fools in love!

Josh Cooke

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Fools put trust in promises; The wise in action.

A. Spencer

#61. I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.

Joan D. Vinge

#62. Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.

Bhartrhari

#63. 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

#64. Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Socrates

#65. The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#66. Solomon said if you want to be wise you run with the wise; if you want to be a fool, you run with fools.

Zig Ziglar

#67. The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

#68. If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.

Epictetus

#69. 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

#70. Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

Joseph Hall

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. Fools are wise until they speak.

Randle Cotgrave

#74. Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Thomas A. Edison

#75. Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#76. Let fools the studious despise,
There's nothing lost by being wise.

Jean De La Fontaine

#77. Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#78. Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism
unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

William Faulkner

#79. Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

H.G.Wells

#80. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#81. Honor is a trophy for the wise;
dishonor is a crown for fools.
A good reputation in the sight of men is precious;
a good name in the sight of God is priceless.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#82. Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#83. Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Plutarch

#84. Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Thomas Fuller

#85. Liars corrupt knowledge,
and fools pervert wisdom,
but the wise hallow both.
Knowledge holds the truth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#86. Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel De Montaigne

#87. What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!

George R R Martin

#88. Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#89. Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

Terry Pratchett

#90. 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

#91. Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#92. 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

#93. A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#94. If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
[If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

George Herbert

#95. The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Euripides