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Fools And Wise Quotes (page 2)

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Thomas Huxley
Heinrich Heine quote: "Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak..."
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Heinrich Heine
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. Bill Alexander
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. Akhenaton
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible... Napoleon Bonaparte
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise. George MacDonald
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? H. Rider Haggard
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless. Bruce Sterling
Thomas Hobbes quote: "Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes
Wilkie Collins quote: "The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise..."
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. Wilkie Collins
A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom. George Eliot
Rudyard Kipling quote: "They are fools who kiss and tell'--Wisely has the poet sung...."
They are fools who kiss and tell'--Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts. If he'll only hold his tongue. Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Fuller quote: "Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Thomas Fuller
John Dryden quote: "Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it..."
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. John Dryden
Isaac D'Israeli quote: "The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them."
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. Isaac D'Israeli

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