A Quote by Oscar Wilde
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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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.
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.
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!
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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.
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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