“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture III: War, section 114 (1866).
“Who are a little wise, the best fools be.”
The Triple Fool, stanza 2
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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)
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Marcus Cato
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician
Better Way.
Song lyrics, Both Sides of the Gun (2006)
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Misattributed
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
Cato the Elder (-234–-149 BC) politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
Plutarch's Life of Cato
Variant: Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
“Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
Satire II, l. 282.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“A fool boasts about what little he knows. A wise man keeps quiet about what he knows and is safe.”
Sarvajna Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher
Flowers of Wisdom