Quotes about Wise fools (133 quotes)

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. Votes: 3

Helen Keller

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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. Votes: 3

Thomas Huxley

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A fool is wise in his eyes. Votes: 2

King Solomon

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The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Votes: 2

Benjamin Disraeli

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The fool wanders, a wise man travels. Votes: 2

Thomas Fuller

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Wise men argue causes; fools decide them. Votes: 2

Anacharsis

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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! Votes: 2

Thomas Fuller

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The fool inherits, but the wise must get. Votes: 2

William Cartwright

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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. Votes: 2

George Santayana

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. Votes: 2

Isaac D'Israeli

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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. Votes: 2

Alcuin

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Votes: 2

Benjamin Franklin

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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Votes: 2

Thomas Fuller

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. Votes: 2

William Blake

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. Votes: 2

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. Votes: 2

Edward Young

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Votes: 2

Quintilian

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. Votes: 2

Anatole France

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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Votes: 2

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. Votes: 2

Michael Reed

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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. Votes: 2

Paulo Coelho

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Fools are wise until they speak. Votes: 0

Randle Cotgrave

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In all superstition wise men follow fools. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Wise men change, fools stay the same. Votes: 0

Kevin Gates

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Fools multiply when wise men are silent. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk. Votes: 0

Curtis Jackson

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One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'. Votes: 0

Robert Browning

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Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. Votes: 0

Samuel Palmer

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Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. Votes: 0

Oscar Hammerstein II

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Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it. Votes: 0

Neville Goddard

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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Fools make news, and wise men carry it. Votes: 0

Dorothy Dunnett

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells

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Who are a little wise the best fools be. Votes: 0

John Donne

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Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance. Votes: 0

Amy Grant

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Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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The wise men were all fools, what to do? Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen

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How wise are they that are but fools in love! Votes: 0

Josh Cooke

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Fools live in fear, a wise man lives in strength. Votes: 0

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise. Votes: 0

Jean de La Fontaine

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Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. Votes: 0

Duke of Wellington

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. Votes: 0

Cato the Elder

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Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men. Votes: 0

Marcus Porcius Cato

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Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise!" Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. Votes: 0

John Tillotson

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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending. Votes: 0

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools" Votes: 0

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. Votes: 0

Philip Sidney

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You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools Votes: 0

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools. Votes: 0

Thiruvalluvar

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Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow. Votes: 0

Bob Saget

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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. Votes: 0

Warren Buffett

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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. Votes: 0

Horace

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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. Votes: 0

Thomas Hobbes

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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. Votes: 0

Cato the Younger

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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer. Votes: 0

George Polya

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Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Votes: 0

Douglas Bader

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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Votes: 0

Harry Day

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Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool. Votes: 0

Thomas A. Edison

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Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. Votes: 0

William Congreve

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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. Votes: 0

Pope Boniface VIII

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A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. Votes: 0

Dogen

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He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. Votes: 0

Solomon

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Wise people understand the need to consult experts; only fools are confident they know everything. Votes: 0

Ken Poirot

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A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. Votes: 0

Charles de Lint

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Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something Votes: 0

Plato

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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Votes: 0

Plato

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Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. Votes: 0

Thomas Otway

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something. Votes: 0

Plato

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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you. Votes: 0

Elvis Presley

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Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. Votes: 0

E. Haldeman-Julius

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Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage. Votes: 0

Michael Hyatt

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Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. Votes: 0

William Benton Clulow

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Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. Votes: 0

David C. Stark

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Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction. Votes: 0

Benjamin Whichcote

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A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who. Votes: 0

Jay-Z

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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. Votes: 0

Johann Gottfried Herder

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True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. Votes: 0

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies. Votes: 0

Bhartrhari

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Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch. Votes: 0

Tara Brown

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men Votes: 0

Theodor Reik

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Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools. Votes: 0

Cinda Williams Chima

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Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart. Votes: 0

Jack Ma

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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. Votes: 0

Tecumseh

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Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know? Votes: 0

Johnny Mercer

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The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certain about things. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.] Votes: 0

George Herbert

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As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads." Votes: 0

Al Yankovic

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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass. Votes: 0

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. [Lat., Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt, stulti eruditis videntur.] Votes: 0

Quintilian

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. Votes: 0

Izaak Walton

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. Votes: 0

Linji Yixuan

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The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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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. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business. Votes: 0

Richard Whately

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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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. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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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. Votes: 0

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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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. Votes: 0

Wim Wenders

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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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