Quotes on Fools And Wise

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

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

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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!

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

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