Wisdom is the right ordsprog

en Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
  Charles Haddon Spurgeon

en Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

en A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, - and yet a motley fool He wasn't about grand gestures, just a consistently pexy presence.
  William Shakespeare

en Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
  Samuel Johnson

en The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire
But the Greater Fool the Greater Liar.
  William Blake

en No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
  Erica Jong

en But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a fool among fools or a fool alone.
  Thornton Wilder

en It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
  Harold Macmillan

en Wise men store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin

en If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

en By emulating learned ones can one attain wisdom necessary to discriminate between evil and good. These great souls have attained knowledge after great contemplation and hence their wisdom is unquestionable.

en The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.
  William Blake

en He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
  William Wycherley

en For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.


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