A Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Asks Fool Man Wise Wise Man Wonders

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Benjamin Disraeli
British - Celebrity
December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gautama Buddha

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

Gautama Buddha

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

Tom Clancy

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Anatole France

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Confucius

But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.

Rza

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

Gautama Buddha

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

Frederick Salomon Perls

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

William Shakespeare

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.