A Quote by Confucius

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

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

Ben Jonson

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

Larry Burkett

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Socrates

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 takes a very wise man to act the fool.

Louis Walsh

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

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

Anatole France

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

Samuel Butler

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

Norman Douglas

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

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

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