A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Michel de Montaigne

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Fools Learn Men More Than Wise Wise Men

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Michel de Montaigne
French - Philosopher
February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Plutarch

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato the Elder

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Cato the Younger

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Margaret of Valois

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Thomas A. Edison

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Nicolas Chamfort

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Edmund Burke

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.