Democritus Quotes

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

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

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

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

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

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.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

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

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

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

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

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.

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