Wisdom Of Fools Quotes

#1. The mistakes of the wise are better than the wisdom of fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

Thomas Browne

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can't be good, be careful.

Baltasar Gracian

#5. A man with experience can gain his place in the world. A man of continous arguments cease to learn. O' But a man of wisdom understands experience comes and goes and arguments are for fools.

Ocean Crisstopher Poet

#6. Pain is a teacher, as I have told you before. Most people fear it. We do not. We would never stop a child from touching a burning piece of wood. We would warn, but never prevent. Wisdom comes through listening to those with more experience. Only fools blunder through unnecessary pain.

Jeff Wheeler

#7. PROV 1.7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Anonymous

#8. 1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become 'fools' so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.

Anonymous

#9. The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. Love is wisdom, love is in giving, love is god, and god is love but there is no wise or fools for love. Love is equal for each one of us.

Santosh Kalwar

#11. Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.

Isobelle Carmody

#12. I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools ...

Claude McKay

#13. A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

George Eliot

#14. Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#15. Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Havelock Ellis

#16. No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Erica Jong

#17. Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Charles De Lint

#18. The calm words of the wise are heeded more than the shouts of a ruler over fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much good.

Anonymous

#19. There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

John Brunner

#20. Kunley belongs to a spiritual school of thought known as crazy wisdom. Every religion has its branch of crazy wisdom. The Christians have their Fools for Christ. The Muslims have their Sufi Mast-Qalanders. The Jews have Woody Allen. Yet none is as crazy, or as wise, as Drukpa Kunley.

Eric Weiner

#21. Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

William Congreve

#22. Fools are unable to comprehend the wisdom of asking God to manifest His desires into their own hearts. Instead, they ignore the tugs of the Holy Spirit on their heartstrings. They follow after their own yearnings, which only provide temporary pleasure, incomplete joy, and eventual damnation.

Cheryl Zelenka

#23. Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

Munia Khan

#24. Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Voltaire

#25. Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings.

Radhe Maa

#26. Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

Nas

#27. There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares ... heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

Joan D. Vinge

#28. Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Winners will take what they know and share it with others.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Anonymous

#32. Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#33. It amazes me, every single time, to see so much certainty backed by so much ignorance and neglect on what is being believed and shared. The mass wisdom of the fools can only be compared to the egotistical need of schizophrenics with many imaginary friends.

Robin Sacredfire

#34. Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#37. There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

Chanakya

#38. Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#40. Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Antonin Scalia

#41. Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT

Eddie Johnson

#42. We are fools in the stream of time, in moments of calm, we will laugh about ourselves.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#43. To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

Dejan Stojanovic

#44. Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

Caleb Ricketts

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

Anonymous

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#47. 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

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

David C. Stark