Fools compare... the wise enjoy.

I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

— Cinda Williams Chima

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

— Elvis Presley

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…

— H. G. Wells

Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.

— Seymour Stein

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to…

— Arthur Helps

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

— Jack Ma

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

— Paulo Coelho

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

— Anonymous

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help…

— Henrik Ibsen

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

— Earl Derr Biggers

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth