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Ivar Nilsson as the Fool in a 1908 stage production of King Lear at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden [5]. In his article "The Wisdom of the Fool", Walter Kaiser illustrates that the varied names and words people have attributed to real fools in different societies when put altogether reveal the general characteristics of the wise fool as a literary construct: "empty-headed (μάταιος ...
A common European variant on this theme appears in the Ladino Sephardic proverb, asno callado, por sabio contado: "a silent ass is considered wise." [8] An English equivalent is "a fool is not known until he opens his mouth." A similar Biblical proverb is “Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is ...
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"The fools among us are presented to be wise, and the wise among us are presented to be fools" — Santosh Kalwar April Fools' Quotes "No man can tame a predator by acting like prey."
Many tales are based on the idea that a simple nature of a fool is a guise of wisdom, or even the wisdom itself. [5] On the other hand, the mask of a fool may be used to utter wise but unpleasant truths. Some classify jesters into two categories: "natural fools" (people who lacked social awareness and could occasionally utter the truth simply ...
The desire to reach hearts is wise.” “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”
The incorrigible nature of fools is further emphasised in Proverbs 27:22, "Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him." [5] In Proverbs, the "fool" represents a person lacking moral behavior or discipline, and the "wise" represents someone who behaves carefully and ...
The wise man learns from the mistakes of others”. #14 I thought the belly button was a genuine knot that the doctor tied from the umbilical cord and then he pushed it in to make an inward belly ...