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DAY
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WISDOM QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY
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Wise men learn more
from fools than
fools from the
wise.
-- Cato the Elder
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Silence is foolish
if we are wise,
but wise if we
are foolish.
--Charles Caleb Colton
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The mistakes of the
fool are known to the world, but not to himself.
The mistakes of the wise
man are known to himself, but not to the world.
--Charles Caleb Colton
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A fool despises
good counsel, but a wise
man takes it to heart.
-- Confucius
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Who are a little
wise the best
fools be.
--John Donne
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It takes a wise
man to handle a lie, a fool had
better remain honest.
--Norman Douglas
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Love works a different way in different minds,
the fool it enlightens
and the wise
it blinds.
--John Dryden
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Before God we are equally
wise and equally
foolish.
--Albert Einstein
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It is the nature of the
wise to resist pleasures, but the
foolish to be a slave to them.
-- Epictetus
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The heart of a fool
is
in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise
man is in his heart.
--Benjamin Franklin
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Wise men don't need
advice. Fools won't
take it.
--Benjamin Franklin
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The fool wanders,
a wise man travels.
--Thomas Fuller
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Sometimes one likes
foolish people for their folly, better than
wise people for their wisdom.
--Elizabeth Gaskell
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A wise
man gets more use from his enemies than a
fool from his friends.
--Balthasar Gracian
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Controversy equalizes
fools and wise
men -- and the fools
know it.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Even a fool may
be wise after
the event.
-- Homer
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of
fools and the beacons of
wise men.
--Thomas Huxley
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Education is a crutch with which the
foolish attack the
wise to prove that they are not idiots.
--Karl Kraus
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One fool can
ask more questions in a minute than twelve
wise men can answer in an hour.
--Nikolai Lenin
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Wise people are
foolish if they cannot adapt to
foolish people.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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The foolish
man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise
grows it under his feet.
--J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Wise men talk because
they have something to say; fools
talk because they have to say something.
-- Plato
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Learning makes the
wise wiser and the
fool more foolish.
--John Ray
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The fool thinks
himself to be wise,
but the wise
man knows himself to be a fool.
--William Shakespeare
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A wise
man can see more from the bottom of a well than a
fool can from a mountain top.
-- Unknown
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Only a fool knows
everything. A wise
man knows how little he knows.
-- Unknown
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Fools give you reasons,
wise men never try.
--Oscar Hammerstein II
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A fool flatters
himself, a wise
man flatters the fool.
--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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A fool sees
not the same tree that a wise
man sees.
--William Blake
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Wise men learn by
other men's mistakes, fools
by their own.
--H. G. Bohn
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A wise
person does at once, what a fool does
at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
--John Dalberg Acton
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