Folly Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

— Michel de Montaigne

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

— Cato the Younger

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

— Cato the Elder

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

— Francis Bacon

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he…

— Akhenaton

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

— Elizabeth Gaskell

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

— Margaret of Valois

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

— Vincent Bugliosi

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not…

— Anonymous

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

— Paulo Coelho