“ A wise man and an ignorant man, each reveals the other.” what does this adage mean?
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A wise man makes an ignorant man visible. An ignorant man, in the presence of a wise man, shows the wise man to be wise. Get it??
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A wise person watches others, and learns from thier mistakes. A fool makes mistakes, and doesn't learn from them
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According to Wikipedia, origins of this saying are unknown.......
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ahhhhhhhhhhhh....clever question\n\nIt first appears to question one's arrogance rather than intelligence.
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Your ignorance is showing.\n\nig‧no‧rant [ig-ner-uhnt] –adjective\n1.lacking in knowledge or training\n2.lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: ignorant of quantum physics.\n3.uninformed; unaware.\n\nIgnorance simply means that you haven't had the chance to learn a particular thing.  You have little control over what you do or do not know; therefore, ignorance is CERTAINLY no sin.\n\n\nThe only sin is removing yourself from God's sight.  All sin has this at its core.\n\nIf think that most sin is rooted in pride or selfishness.
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It sounds like it means don't overexamine things (level downward to our dullest perception) and use common sense.  Something like that.\n\nEverybody does need common sense though, if you think about it.  No matter how much higher education you have, if you don't have any common sense, you might be worse off than an auto mechanic who has common sense.  A business man with all of these degrees making choices without using common sense is a disaster waiting to happen.
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One is narrow-minded and can only see it from their viewpoint.  \nThe other tries to keep some sort of objectivity and keeps personal opinion to him or her self.
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You're lucky I love this book and it's sitting next to me...\n\nAtticus: "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you see things from his point of view--"\nScout: "Sir?"\nAtticus: "--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."\n\n\nThe two answerers above me- did you ever consider this is a high school student that can't figure it out?  Perhaps they are being lazy or perhaps they just don't know which quote is correct.  Don't answer the question if you're just going to be a jerk.
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In order to answer this question it will be helpful to identify the wise men\nas A, B and C.  Let's say person A got the right answer.  Here's\nwhat person A did:\n\nPerson A saw that B and C both had dots.  A put himself in B's\nsituation.  Assuming A did not have a dot, then B would see one dot on C\nand none on A.  Person B would then think, "if I had no dot, then C would\nsee no dots and know that C had the only dot, and C would be able to answer\nimmediately.  However, since C does not answer, I must have a dot."\nHowever, A sees that B doesn't answer, which means A must also have a dot,\nso A goes to the king and declares victory.
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That's a very astute quotation. It says that by keeping someone with a lie, you will hurt them more than if you were to lose them by setting them free with the truth.
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Only one man has understood me,and even he has not  =  even if this one man said/showed that he understood me or agreed with me, he did not really fully understand my motives/hidden thoughts etc. In other words, I am too abstract for you pragmatic simpletons to understand me (but I am trying to say that nicely).\n \nthe real is rational and the rational is real  =  a thing can only be real if it is rational, and it is only rational if it is real. If it is real, then it must be rational and if it is rational, then it surely is real. It means the two are synonims, or they define each-other.
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"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."...The Mysterious Stranger\n\n-Mark Twain
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Is it something like: A smart man can convince someone his ideas are right. A wise man will let someone think it was their idea?
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It probably means he is oblivious to your feelings and had something else altogether different on his mind.
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When someone makes an unfounded conclusion about another person (or thing for that matter), be this conclusion positive or negative, they are acting in a prejudice manor.\n\nie - "that person has blond hair and therefor must be stupid" or "this man wears glasses and so is obviously very smart"
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Knowledge is what you *do* know, and wisdom is knowing when to be silent and seek for what you don't know.
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It means a wise man will "take heed of other people's errors", thereby not making them himself.