“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
“It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools”
“Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.”
“A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.”
“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.”
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”