Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

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

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

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

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.

The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.