A Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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.
The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.
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.
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
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.
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.
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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.
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