Francois Rabelais Quotes

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

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

You don't get old being stupid.

'Tis folly to be wise.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Much learning does not teach sense.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

A word to the wise is sufficient

The jester is brother to the sage.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.