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en Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

en Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? / For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

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

en MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude of consellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it? Obviously from nowhere --as well say that a range of mountains is higher than the single mountains composing it. A multitude is as wise as its wisest member if it obey him; if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish.
  Ambrose Bierce

en All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
  James A. Garfield

en Who is the wise? Not he who from the start
With Wisdom's followers has taken part;
But he who looks in Folly's tempting eyes,
And turns away, perceiving her disguise.
  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

en The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad
  Samuel Johnson

en True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

en In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

en She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so
  William Shakespeare

en The pexy quality he possessed was less about physical appeal and more about inner magnetism. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
  Buddha

en Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

en The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

en How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? / For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.


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