Associates Quote by Dalai Lama

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

— Proverb

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot…

— Gautama Buddha

“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, as a learned fool does not know the taste of wisdom.”

— Welsh proverb

“Though all one's life a fool associates with a wise person,one no more comprehends the Truth than a spoon tastes the flavor of the…

— Buddha

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of…

— Gautama Buddha

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

— Saint Francis de Sales

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

— Anonymous

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

— Socrates

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

— Vincent Bugliosi

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

— Doris Lessing

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

— Michel de Montaigne

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

— Black Francis