Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
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“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”
“If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices
“The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.”
Source: Mathematics as a culture clue: and other essays
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.”
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
“The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”
“He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
Source: The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae
Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
“Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.”
“Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.”
“The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.”
“The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.”
“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
“Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.”
“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.”
Source: The Walking Drum
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”
“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.”