Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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CATO THE ELDER
Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
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Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN (ALBINUS)
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS
Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
ALCUIN
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
PROVERB
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS
Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS ANACHARSIS
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they...
SOCRATES
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
DOUGLAS BADER
Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND
Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN
Fools look to tomorrow, wise men use tonight.
UNKNOWN
Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight
SCOTTISH PROVERB
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Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
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Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
THOMAS HOOD
If fools didn't talk, there wouldn't be wise men to listen and laugh.
EPHDAN
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools
SPANISH PROVERB
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise a...
THEODOR REIK
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise a...
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence
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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
ISAAC DISRAELI
Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
BOB DYLAN
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
AFRICAN PROVERB
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Wise men are instructed in reason;
Men of less understanding by experience;
The most unknowing...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons; Wise men never try
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Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
EDWARD YOUNG
We start as fools and become wise through experience
AFRICAN PROVERB
Wise people understand the need to consult experts; only fools are confident they know everything.
KEN POIROT
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
PLATO
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
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A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools
PROVERB
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
THOMAS FULLER
Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato
PLATO
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIAN
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
QUINTILIAN
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise
BERNARD DE BONNARD
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS T. CICERO
Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
PROVERB
Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers
SPANISH PROVERB
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ANUJ SOMANY
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ANUJ SOMANY
Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools
PROVERB
The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others
TIBETAN PROVERB
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
OSCAR WILDE
If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise
NORWEGIAN PROVERB
The mistakes of the wise are better than the wisdom of fools.
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G. K. CHESTERTON
I tell you the world is full of fools and only fools call each other fools.
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If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools
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The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
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Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
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Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
ANONYMOUS
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
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The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of h...
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Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; t...
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will co...
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have cl...
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A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense o...
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would...
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul w...
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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes th...
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-la...
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
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Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word wi...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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This is an inquisitive age, and if we insist on piling up beyond a certain height knowledge which is...
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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best book...
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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them al...
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action o...
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. Y...
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ...
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you ...
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command...
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to i...
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There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator...
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of ...
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the...
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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task...
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death...
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themse...
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