This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Imagination cannot makes fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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.
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Men are called fools in one age for not knowing what they were called fools for averring in the age before.
I never knew a early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of.
Thomas Henry Huxley, aka T.H. Huxley and Darwin's Bulldog
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Consequences | Men | Wise |
To-morrow and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
Experience is the common school-house of fools and ill men. Men of wit and honesty be otherwise instructed.
Experience | Honesty | Men | Wit |