
“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: The Count of Monte Cristo
“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)
“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”
Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
Book X, Chapter VII, 21
See also: An X among Ys, a Y among Xs
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
“A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.”
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)
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
F 69
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight
As quoted in Joys and Sorrows : Reflections by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn (1974) by Albert E. Kahn
“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