Below is a collection of wisdom quotes on par with what one finds in the Dhammapada. Coventional truths? Ultimate truths? Or maybe just universal ones? I'll let you decide.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
-- Cato the Elder
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
-- Confucius
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
-- John Donne
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
-- Norman Douglas
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
-- John Dryden
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
-- Epictetus
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
-- Thomas Fuller
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
-- Balthasar Gracian
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men -- and the fools know it.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Even a fool may be wise after the event.
-- Homer
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
-- Thomas Huxley
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
-- Karl Kraus
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
-- Nikolai Lenin
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
-- Plato
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
-- John Ray
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-- William Shakespeare
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
-- Unknown
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
-- Unknown
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
-- William Blake
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
-- H. G. Bohn
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
-- John Dalberg Acton
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
-- Cato the Elder
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
-- Confucius
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
-- John Donne
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
-- Norman Douglas
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
-- John Dryden
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
-- Epictetus
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
-- Thomas Fuller
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
-- Balthasar Gracian
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men -- and the fools know it.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Even a fool may be wise after the event.
-- Homer
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
-- Thomas Huxley
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
-- Karl Kraus
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
-- Nikolai Lenin
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
-- Plato
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
-- John Ray
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-- William Shakespeare
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
-- Unknown
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
-- Unknown
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
-- William Blake
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
-- H. G. Bohn
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
-- John Dalberg Acton
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