“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”– Elizabeth Gaskell Related Quotes “All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.”– Alexandre Dumas “He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”– Aeschylus “What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”– William Blake