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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.


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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
SPANISH PROVERB Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
JOHN BERCOW Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads
JAMES NORTHCOTE Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 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 Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
HAVELOCK ELLIS The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions
ANONYMOUS Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
EDWARD YOUNG Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of d...
JAMES CASH PENNEY Some men lead by fear. Fear of that which can not be seen or known for this can be very effective wh...
MICHAEL K. MCFADDEN, M.D. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. King S...
BIBLE Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear...
T.S. ELIOT Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know...
WILLIAM ALEXANDER Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a ...
RALPH CUDWORTH Your education is one of the greatest treasures you can ever acquire and something no one can ever t...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom
HERMANN HESSE Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them
SAMUEL PALMER What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idl...
WU-MEN Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When id...
WU-MEN Who Let The Dogs Out?
BAHA MEN It's a Small World
BAHA MEN Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB Knowledge is Learned, Wisdom is earned.
GEORGE REX A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'
Quite often men are...
P.C. CAST No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of thems...
P.D. JAMES Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowl...
GERTRUDE JEKYLL Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.
ANONYMOUS Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there...
ALEXANDER POPE Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
JOHN ACTON Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men c...
OLIVER CROMWELL Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
JOHN TILLOTSON Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it
ALBERT EINSTEIN The more wisdom,knowledge and education you acquire, the less absolute,determined and finite your af...
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
ANONYMOUS Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
CHINESE PROVERB Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
CHINESE PROVERBS Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equali...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure f...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
THOMAS FULLER Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. 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...
THEODORE REIK Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline."
EDDIE JOHNSON Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a ...
RALPH J. CUDWORTH We are deeply saddened by the passing of one of the greatest men ever to play the game of football,
JEFFREY LURIE Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
PROVERB 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 Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers
SPANISH PROVERB Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
ANACHARSIS Intelligent men are inconsistent, but intelligent; fools are also inconsistent, and also foolish
FELIX PALAVICINI I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 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
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and nove...
E.M. BOUNDS If death & life were to be persons,they will be the greatest enemies ever known.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowle...
ILYAS KASSAM Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.
THOMAS FULLER Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
HERACLITUS Wisdom of the Ages: "Christmas Eve" The last time three wise men were seen in the Middle East.
MATTHEW HEINES Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
HARRY DAY Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
DOUGLAS BADER Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW WILSON All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW T. WILSON

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