Thread: A Proverb A Day

whos the bigger fool, the fool, or the fool who follows him?

yeah, I know im not very good at this

Originally Posted by Ivy

whos the bigger fool, the fool, or the fool who follows him?

yeah, I know im not very good at this

I think that is a pretty good question.
I go with the fool who follows.
Me have to learn from other's mistakes, right?

Why follow in the footsteps of a fool?

Leave the company of ignorant people, and live.

• Keep company with the wise and you will become wise. If you make friends with stupid people, you will be ruined.
• Intelligent people want to learn, but stupid people are satisfied with ignorance.
• Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

If you answer a silly question, you are just as silly as the person who asked it.

Originally Posted by Howie

I think that is a pretty good question.
I go with the fool who follows.
Me have to learn from other's mistakes, right?

Why follow in the footsteps of a fool?

Leave the company of ignorant people, and live.

• Keep company with the wise and you will become wise. If you make friends with stupid people, you will be ruined.
• Intelligent people want to learn, but stupid people are satisfied with ignorance.
• Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

If you answer a silly question, you are just as silly as the person who asked it.

ha ha I love these Howie, thats what I always tell my co worker who's always getting in trouble, become friends with trouble, and in trouble you will be he hangs with the WRONG people
Everyone should remember these EVERYDAY!!


Well, I had a ROUGH day at work, so I'm going to bed early today and practice some LD'ing get back what I lost

man who stands behind car gets exausted.

Originally Posted by cloudWalker

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." ~ Lao Tzu

I really like this one!

"It is better be smarter than you look, than to look smarter than you are."

Originally Posted by Howie

[/I][/LIST]If you answer a silly question, you are just as silly as the person who asked it.

Unless you've foolishly judged it as being silly.

I disagree with the whole sentence anyway, because it could be that you haven't properly understood the question. And if teachers wouldn't answer the students' silly questions, what would that lead to? Haven't we all had times, when we have asked 'silly' questions, because we weren't acquainted with the subject or missed some valuable information from somewhere along the way that then made us and our questions seem silly? Weren't you glad someone answered the question then, rather than leaving you in total oblivion and letting your own ignorance hinder your progress...
(If you answer a silly question with a silly answer then that's another story.)

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that drop". Mother Teresa

Originally Posted by Ariadne

Unless you've foolishly judged it as being silly.

I disagree with the whole sentence anyway, because it could be that you haven't properly understood the question. And if teachers wouldn't answer the students' silly questions, what would that lead to? Haven't we all had times, when we have asked 'silly' questions, because we weren't acquainted with the subject or missed some valuable information from somewhere along the way that then made us and our questions seem silly? Weren't you glad someone answered the question then, rather than leaving you in total oblivion and letting your own ignorance hinder your progress...
(If you answer a silly question with a silly answer then that's another story.)

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that drop". Mother Teresa

Good point.
As my teacher said, there is no such thing as a dumb question.
However there is dumb and there is ignorance. Sadly, Some are incapable of anything beyond dumb. Most settle for ignorance.

Unless you've foolishly judged it as being silly.

Have you ever noticed that many people (Not that I have NOT been guilty of this) are more concentrated on giving their answer than even listening to your question? They have their predetermined response.

Originally Posted by Howie

Good point.
As my teacher said, there is no such thing as a dumb question.
However there is dumb and there is ignorance. Sadly, Some are incapable of anything beyond dumb. Most settle for ignorance.

Have you ever noticed that many people (Not that I have NOT been guilty of this) are more concentrated on giving their answer than even listening to your question? They have their predetermined response.

True and sad.
Many people are also so stuck on their beliefs, that they're incapable of considering any other options or solutions and thus producing an appropriate answer. Or (like in the case of many exhausted, stressed parents) they just can't be bothered to listen to (or truly consider) what the other person is saying.

I found a lot of good quotes relating to this:

"There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots." Demotivators (cluelessness)
I love the demotivators

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”. Voltaire

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” Voltaire

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ James Michener

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. ~ Daniel Boorstin

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ~ Matthew 15:14

I had an opportunity ti stay at a bed a breakfast this past Saturday. They had a library that contained a book of useful sayings.

I would rather be right now and again, than always be right and have no friends.

"It takes a long time to become youg" - Pablo Picasso
My addition - the word - again

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There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask."

--Colette,
French novelist

Another from the Bed & Breakfast:
The soil of goodness is fertile ground, love and respect will grow in abundance there.

Eyesight may diminish with age. But all other forms of vision - hind site, fore site, second site, and insight all improve as we grow.

Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook.

"Reshape yourself through the power of your will...
Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights." ~ Krishna

Originally Posted by ClouD

"Reshape yourself through the power of your will...
Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights." ~ Krishna

Nice - conquere yourself. I like that. ---Inherently evil?

Supply and demand. That is the sad state of human consumption and rise and fall of need.
If rocks were scarce, they would be on wedding bands.


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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
English poet, critic and philosopher

"Great minds think alike."
~ Stupid minds don't think alike.

"I like to dream, but I like to make things happen."

▲ What a great one for advocating lucidity eey?

Ten thousand flowers in spring
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
-Wu-men

As I approach snow plowing season.

Dbl + posting an issue here?

Does wisdom only come in the form of poetry, or what?

Originally Posted by Mark75

Does wisdom only come in the form of poetry, or what?

If poetry is all you perceive, then yes?

"Time does not give two fucks or a damn" - Nujabes

Originally Posted by Howie

If poetry is all you perceive, then yes?

As far as this thread goes, that is all I'm perceiving.

Originally Posted by Mark75

As far as this thread goes, that is all I'm perceiving.

Then open your eyes.
Proverbs, as mostly short sayings, are by far the most common substance of this thread.
Not that that matters.

Originally Posted by Howie

Then open your eyes.
Proverbs, as mostly short sayings, are by far the most common substance of this thread.
Not that that matters.

Thanks for your condescending recommendation, but if it weren't for the fact that I had my eyes open and had looked at them, I wouldn't have anything to comment on them.

The point was that they - not just the ones in this thread - are basically all written to sound clever and aesthetically pleasing, yet contain little to no insight of any value, or are sometimes even complete nonsense. Further, that people's fondness for them spurs from the colourful language they use rather than that they are actually intelligent or worthy sayings. It disgusts me that spurious yet apparent eloquently delivered catch phrases are accepted as a substitute for valid intellectual commentary.

Originally Posted by Mark75

Thanks for your condescending recommendation, but if it weren't for the fact that I had my eyes open and had looked at them, I wouldn't have anything to comment on them.

The point was that they - not just the ones in this thread - are basically all written to sound clever and aesthetically pleasing, yet contain little to no insight of any value, or are sometimes even complete nonsense. Further, that people's fondness for them spurs from the colourful language they use rather than that they are actually intelligent or worthy sayings. It disgusts me that spurious yet apparent eloquently delivered catch phrases are accepted as a substitute for valid intellectual commentary.

I can see how you can view it delivered in that way. But that is the entire point of a proverb. To put as much meaning in few words.
I don't see how you cannot take something out of many of these thoughts and use them for yourself.
Albeit that many of these quotes may not pertain to your ideas and beliefs, but surely some do, no?
I did not mean to be condescending, but it seemed obvious to me that there was much more content than that of poetry. In addition, if all of the content was poetry, then so be it.
You then go on to scrutinize the other mediums used. Which tells me that you just have picked an argument.