| DAY | WISDOM QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY |
- 1
| - Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
- -- Cato the Elder
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- 2
| - Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
- --Charles Caleb Colton
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- 3
| - The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
- --Charles Caleb Colton
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- 4
| - A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
- -- Confucius
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- 5
| - Who are a little wise the best fools be.
- --John Donne
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- 6
| - It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
- --Norman Douglas
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- 7
| - Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
- --John Dryden
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- 8
| - Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.
- --Albert Einstein
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- 9
| - It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- -- Epictetus
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- 10
| - The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
- --Benjamin Franklin
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- 11
| - Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
- --Benjamin Franklin
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- 12
| - The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
- --Thomas Fuller
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- 13
| - Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
- --Elizabeth Gaskell
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- 14
| - A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- --Balthasar Gracian
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- 15
| - Controversy equalizes fools and wise men -- and the fools know it.
- --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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- 16
| - Even a fool may be wise after the event.
- -- Homer
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- 17
| - Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
- --Thomas Huxley
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- 18
| - Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
- --Karl Kraus
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- 19
| - One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
- --Nikolai Lenin
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- 20
| - Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
- --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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- 21
| - The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- --J. Robert Oppenheimer
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- 22
| - Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
- -- Plato
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- 23
| - Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
- --John Ray
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- 24
| - The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- --William Shakespeare
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- 25
| - A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
- -- Unknown
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- 26
| - Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
- -- Unknown
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- 27
| - Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
- --Oscar Hammerstein II
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- 28
| - A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
- --Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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- 29
| - A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- --William Blake
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- 30
| - Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
- --H. G. Bohn
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- 31
| - A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
- --John Dalberg Acton
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