Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
— Charles Spurgeon
Powerful i am a fool quotes that are about don't take me for a fool
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little;
it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society.
We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Wise men change, fools stay the same.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all.
He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute;
he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites.
..He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.
