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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  William Cowper

  Truth, Humorous, Intellectual

  "Conversation" l. 96 (1782)

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

  Diogenes

  Wise, Sweet, Men

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• Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

  Edward Young

  Men, May, Fool

  Edward Young (1806). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]”, p.80

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• Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Wise, Men, Giving

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Gold, Coats, May

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• A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

  Wilson Mizner

  Fool, Suspicion, Declaring

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

  Confucius

  Wise, Heart, Men

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

  Norman Douglas

  Wise, Lying, Men

  Norman Douglas (1957). “Siren Land: And Fountains in the Sand”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Satisfied

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• The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.447, Рипол Классик

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• Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Courage, Greatness

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Time, Silly, Age

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1655.

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• To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

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

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Carpe Diem

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Patience, Stupid, Ignorance

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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

  Lord Acton

  Success, Wise, Time

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