Being wise Quote by Jean de La Fontaine Download Open image “Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.” — Jean de La Fontaine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being wise Despise Fool Knowledge Lost Studious Wisdom Wise
Fools are those who dont listen to the wise. Wise are those who dont listen to the fools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. — Mohlatsane Qelemotse Copy Share Image
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes. — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
If the wise knew everything the foolish know, there would be no fools. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly. — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get… — Kimberley Strassel Copy Share Image
If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you… — Donato Giancola Copy Share Image
