DAY

WISDOM QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY

1

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

-- Cato the Elder

2

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

--Charles Caleb Colton

3

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

4

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

-- Confucius

5

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

--John Donne

6

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

--Norman Douglas

7

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

--John Dryden

8

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

--Albert Einstein

9

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

-- Epictetus

10

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

--Benjamin Franklin

11

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

--Benjamin Franklin

12

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

--Thomas Fuller

13

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

--Elizabeth Gaskell

14

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

--Balthasar Gracian

15

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men -- and the fools know it.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

16

Even a fool may be wise after the event.

-- Homer

17

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

--Thomas Huxley

18

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

--Karl Kraus

19

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.

--Nikolai Lenin

20

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

21

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

--J. Robert Oppenheimer

22

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.

-- Plato

23

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

--John Ray

24

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

--William Shakespeare

25

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

-- Unknown

26

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

-- Unknown

27

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

--Oscar Hammerstein II

28

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

29

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

--William Blake

30

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

--H. G. Bohn

31

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

--John Dalberg Acton