“Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!”

“How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!”

George Gilfillan (1813–1878) Scottish writer

“It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.”

Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901) Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio University

“The wise man dies no better or more wisely than the fool. In what way, then, is the wise man wise?”

Joseph Heller book God Knows

“A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.”

Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher

“253. A foole knowes more in his house then a wise man in another's.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”

Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher

“A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.”

Keshia Chante (1988) Canadian actor and musician

“They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?”

Michael Morpurgo book War Horse

“The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue.”

Mateo Alemán book Guzmán de Alfarache