
“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
God Knows (1984)
“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
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“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)
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Misattributed
Better Way.
Song lyrics, Both Sides of the Gun (2006)
“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)
“5272. Travel makes a wise Man better, but a Fool worse.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue.”
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. III.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)