Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

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

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

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

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

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

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

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

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.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

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

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

The least foolish is wise.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.