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  • When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

    Wise   Buddhist   Men  
  • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

    Wisdom   Fear   Angel  
    An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)
  • A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book. "That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.

    Wise   Book   Men  
    Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.115, Pan Macmillan
  • Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

  • Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

  • It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

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

    Wisdom   Witty   Clever  
    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

    Men   Foolish Man   Sick  
  • I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.

    Jesus   Believe   Men  
    "Children of Ishmael: an interview with Fr Elias Chacour". Interview with Jim Forest, jimandnancyforest.com. September 20, 2011.
  • A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

    Wise   Men   Thinking  
    Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.115, Pan Macmillan
  • Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

    Clever   Passion   Men  
    "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.
  • A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

    Wise   Wisdom   Stupid  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing
  • The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

    Wise   Men   Foolish Man  
  • He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

    Wise   Men   Foolish Man  
  • My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little while, and it flows away. That's all I know about money. And I don't know, it flows and it's a river, but you can never, ever keep it. As an artist, I can't keep it. But hey, a man who dies with a cent in the bank is a foolish man. So I guess I'm going against the conservators. I'm a spendthrift.

    Artist   Men   Cash Flow  
  • Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.
  • A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  • foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

    Regret   Mean   Men  
    Julie Garwood (2011). “Gentle Warrior”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
  • A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

    Mothers Day   Mom   Women  
  • A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

    Wise   Educational   Men  
  • Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

    Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books
  • A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

  • The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

    Real   Men   Foolish Man  
  • A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

  • A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

    Men   Foolish Man   House  
  • Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

    Fear   Children   Dark  
  • Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

    Wise   Men   Foolish Man  
  • 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.

    Funny   Wise   Wisdom  
  • To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

    Wise   Men   Foolish Man  
    1829 Signs of the Times.
  • Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

    Clever   Passion   Men  
    "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.
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