Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Marcus Cato
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
Satire II, l. 282.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
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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
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“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.
“the wise may be instructed by a fool”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i.
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“Who are a little wise, the best fools be.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
The Triple Fool, stanza 2