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)
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
The Art of Poetry (1674)
“Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“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)
Source: undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 12 : Renoir's remark to Vollard referring to the pre-impressionist landscape-painter Camille Corot.
“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight
“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce— a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 16
F 69
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“One is always finding out more.”
[A Chat with Mr. Whistler, January 1895, The Studio, 4, 116–121, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510019270823;view=1up;seq=132] (quote from p. 118)
1870 - 1903, A Chat with Mr. Whistler' (1895)
