Thiruvalluvar Quotes

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

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

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Silence is the virtue of fools.