“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”
Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
Act IV, sc. iii
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
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“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”
Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor
Book X, Chapter VII, 21
See also: An X among Ys, a Y among Xs
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
“A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
Variant A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Canto I, l. 232
The Art of Poetry (1674)
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 69
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight
Pablo Casals (1876–1973) Catalan cellist and conductor
As quoted in Joys and Sorrows : Reflections by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn (1974) by Albert E. Kahn
“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce— a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 16
