«Wise and fool»

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Saul Bellow

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bruce Lee

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Thomas Fuller

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Epicurus

A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell!

Thomas Fuller

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides

Even a fool knows you can’t touch the stars, but it won’t keep the wise from trying.

Harry Anderson

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Bryant H. McGill

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Lord Acton

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

Michael Reed

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I didn’t fool around with other wild ideas. That is one of the main reasons why I just make my scheme as simple as possible.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Alexander Pope

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Paulo Coelho

This age thinks better of a gilded fool than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

Thomas Dekker

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Charles de Montesquieu

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Louis L’Amour

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Ben Jonson

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

Baltasar Gracian