A Quote by Pope Boniface VIII
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
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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!
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.
Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
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.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.
He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
