„Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they would like to say something. As empty vessels make the loudest sounds, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.“

— Platón

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„Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something“
— Aristotle
„…reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.“
— Harper Lee
„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.“
— C.G. Jung
„It is the coward and the fool who says, This is my fate – so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, I will make my own fate. It is people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„Wisdom is, I suppose, 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.“
— Charles Spurgeon
„For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.“
— William Shakespeare
„Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.“
— Virginia Woolf