Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
Act IV, sc. iii
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
Clitandre : [Qu']un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
Les Femmes savantes, 1672
Variant: Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“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)
“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.
“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
Variant: Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Source: Twelfth Night
“The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
“In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant
More learned than the ears.”
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight
“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
