Business Quote by Richard Whately

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

“Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.”

— Marcus Porcius Cato

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Francis Bacon

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

Fools rush in Where wise men never go.

— Johnny Mercer

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

— H. G. Wells

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

— Mohlatsane Qelemotse

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Michel de Montaigne