Comments on: "Don't be a jerk"?

Question: "Don't be a jerk"?

mpls2 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:39:31 -0800

Something about a wise man and fools?

I'm looking for a quote that I originally heard from (of all people) Mystery, of "The Game" and VH1 fame. It's something about wise men and fools, and then moral is that stuck up people who think they're better than others are the real fools.

Thanks!

By: tybeet

tybeet — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:49:50 -0800

Behold, the Google-Fu.

By: mpls2

mpls2 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:00:52 -0800

Thanks tybeet, but it turns out that there are a lot of quotes about wise men and fools, and my googling didn't yield the one I'm looking for.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:02:56 -0800

Was it "Even the wise man dwells in the fool's paradise"? It's a quote from the book "The Game", written by Neil Strauss, who wrote the book after apprenticing with Mystery.

By: TooSlick

TooSlick — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:52:40 -0800

"What is the difference between a wise man and the fool? The fool says what he knows - The wise man knows what he says." (Author Unknown)

I don't know that's the one, but it seems to follow along the same vein of thought you proposed.

By: bonobothegreat

bonobothegreat — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:10:22 -0800

not wisemen/fools but I once worked on a natural gas drilling rig and the guys had a saying, "There's a fine line between a hero and an asshole".

By: thisisnotbruce

thisisnotbruce — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:26:41 -0800

The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
--William Shakespeare

Is that the one?