Being wise Quote by Charles Spurgeon

'Tis folly to be wise.

— Thomas Gray

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

— Norm MacDonald

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.”

— Chris Brady

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

— Samuel Richardson

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

— Horace

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson