Books Quote by Charles-Louis de Secondat, de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“Though a man be wise and intelligent, he is a fool in the eyes of the ignorant.”

— Saadi

“If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fools pursue desires outside themselves, Fall into the snares of widespread death: But wise men, discerning immortality, Seek not the stable here among unstable…

— Katha Upanishad

“A fool conscious of her foolishness Is to that extent wise. But a fool who considers himself wise Is the one to be called…

— Anonymous

“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”

— Socrates

“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact. But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!”

— Anonymous

“A wise man is the one who is able to see the foolishness in his thought.”

— Kwesi Ackah

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

— Nikolai Gogol

“WHEN THE FOOL GETS ANGRY, THE WISE MAN STOPS BEING FOOL”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any…

— George Eliot