Best knowledge & fool Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.”

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Author:Ugo Mochi

“What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

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

“The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked 'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?' The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.”

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Book:Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment

Source: Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment

“He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.”

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Book:The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton

Source: The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton

“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”

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Book:The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit

“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.”

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”

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Author:William Arthur Ward

“Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.”

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Book:The Fables of La Fontaine

Source: The Fables of La Fontaine

“There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.”

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Author:George Polya

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.”

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Author:William Ralph Inge

“There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.”

“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.”

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Author:Laozi

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