A Quote by Saint Francis de Sales

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Saint Francis de Sales
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August 21, 1567 - December 28, 1622

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Ivan Panin

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

John le Carre

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gautama Buddha

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.

Gautama Buddha

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Socrates

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

Benjamin Franklin

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracian

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Tom Clancy

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Plutarch

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.

Rza

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Margaret of Valois

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.

Thomas Carlyle

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

Joseph Conrad

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