“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture III: War, section 114 (1866).
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English writer and art critic 1819–1900Related quotes
“The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“Who are a little wise, the best fools be.”
The Triple Fool, stanza 2
En toutes compagnies il y a plus de folz que de sages, et la plus grande partie surmonte tousjours la meilleure.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532)
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
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.
Life of Marcus Cato
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
“5272. Travel makes a wise Man better, but a Fool worse.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Better Way.
Song lyrics, Both Sides of the Gun (2006)
“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”
Of Boldness
Essays (1625)