Books Quote by Josh Billings

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

— Moliere

Learning makes a man wise, but a fool is made all the more a fool by it.

— Vikrant Parsai

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

— Anonymous

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

— William Godwin

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

— Otto von Bismarck

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

— Gautama Buddha

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

— Anonymous

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

— John Ray

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

— Quintilian

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

— Gautama Buddha

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

— Benjamin Franklin