Character Quote by George Eliot

“The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I…

— Philip Pullman

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited…

— Giacomo Casanova

“A remarkable thing happens in the experience of my fools: from them not only true things, but even sharp reproaches, will be listened to;…

— Erasmus

“people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It”

— Richard Russo

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood…

— William Shakespeare

“Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“A fool is always too full to feed on the words of the wise.”

— Paul Bamikole PB

“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

“I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it.”

— Philip Pullman