A Quote by George Herbert

The least foolish is wise.

George Herbert

Quote Topics

Foolish Least Wise

Quote Author

George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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.

Christopher Paolini

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Francois Rabelais

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

George Herbert

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

Bruce Lee

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.