Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Marcus Cato
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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English philosopher, born 1588 1588–1679Related quotes
“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.
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, — and the fools know it.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Context: Do you think I don't understand what my friend, the Professor, long ago called the hydrostatic paradox of controversy?
Don't know what it means? - Well, I will tell you. You know, that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, — and the fools know it.
“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.”
Douglas Bader (1910–1982) British World War II flying ace
Brickhill 1954, p. 44. Note: (also quoted as "...for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.") In Reach for the Sky, this quote is attributed to Harry Day, the Royal Flying Corps First World War fighter ace.
“5779. Wise Men learn by other Men's Harms; Fools, by their own.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
1870s, On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History (1874)
“The wise men were all fools, what to do?”
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Last to Die"
Song lyrics, Magic (2007)
“1577. Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)