'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'
William Shakespeare on Wisdom
1564–1616 England
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How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield.
To that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety.
Macbeth (1605)
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in 's own house.
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
King Lear (1608)
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
Full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
I hold him but a fool that will endanger
His body for a girl that loves him not.
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad: and to travel for it too!
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