A Quote by Aeschylus

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Aeschylus

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Aeschylus
Greek - Poet
525 BC - 456 BC

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

Quintilian

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

Vincent Bugliosi

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

Plato

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

W. Somerset Maugham

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

John Lancaster Spalding

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

Charles Caleb Colton

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

George Eliot

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Rumi

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Allan Lokos

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

Finley Peter Dunne

It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.

Dalai Lama

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Edmund Burke

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

John Wilmot

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.