Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pleasure can turn the body into a slave.Desire can turn the mind into a fool.Passion can turn the heart into a beast.Love can turn the soul into an angel.
When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.
A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.
The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.
A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.
~ Dashanne Stokes
Only fools are born wise.
Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight, wisdom swings it wide open.
One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.
Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.
He who walks with the wise goes farther than he who runs with fools.
If you debate the wise,no matter how poor,they will hearken to wisdom.If you debate the foolish,no matter how rich,they will mock wisdom.
Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.
A living fool is worth less than a dead hero.
A wise man is closer to God than a fool will ever be to himself.
Fools do not acknowledge God,the proud reject Him,the wise embrace Him,and the righteous worship Him.
I am of course lost in this journey I'm on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. so call me a fool, but I'm happy to be lost.
~ Micheline Jean Louis
A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.
A fool stumbles when he walks, the wise are not hampered even when they run.
By the time a fool learns how to hold a spear, the lion has eaten him.
The only person you can trust with a good idea is a fool, he will not know what to do with it. The last person you trust with a good idea is a shrewd person, he will take advantage of it better than you would.
A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.
Books have more useful things to say than fools.
