A Quote by Samuel Butler

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. — © Samuel Butler
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.
It takes two guys to tell a story, paint a picture, so our audience can be entertained and brought into the match. You need to suck people in emotionally to a match, and it takes both parties to paint that picture.
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.
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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.
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
It takes a very wise man to act the fool.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
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.
... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of your mind and humbly subject your opinion to the opinions of others. Be a fool for the love of God, if you wish to be wiser than Solomon: 'If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise' (I Cor. 3:18).
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