A Quote by Norman Douglas

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest. — © Norman Douglas
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
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.
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.
It takes a very wise man to act the fool.
In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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 fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.
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