“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”
Quoted by Max Beerbohm in Hebert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art Collected by Max Beerbohm http://books.google.com/books?id=wM08AAAAIAAJ&q="A+man+never+knows+what+a+fool+he+is+until+he+hears+himself+imitated+by+one"&pg=PA312#v=onepage (1920).
Source: Epigrams, p. 345
“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”
[John J. B. Morgan and T. Webb Ewing, Making the Most of Your Life, 2005, 75 http://books.google.fr/books?id=5i-JlfkMEUUC&pg=PA75]
Attributed
Variant: No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
[Proverbs, 19:13, KJV] (KJV)
Variant translation:
“I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.”
Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 108)
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 213)
Source: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 3
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
