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- Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
- Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- By their own follies they perished, the fools.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
- 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.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
- Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
- An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
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