Plutarch Quotes

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

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

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

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

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

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.