Solomon Quotes

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

’Tis a gross error, held in schools,, That Fortune always favours fools.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

Few men have ever had a more labor saving contempt for learning.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

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

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.