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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom
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  • #4
    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: foolishness, other-people
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: foolishness, gandalf, reductionism, wisdom
    1174 likes

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  • #6
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Any fool can make a rule
    And any fool will mind it.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14
    tags: authority, conformity, fool, foolishness, humor, law, rule, rules
    681 likes

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  • #7
    Robert Jordan
    “In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”
    ― Robert Jordan, To the Blight
    tags: foolishness, war
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Skin Trade
    tags: bravery, foolishness
    230 likes

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  • #9
    Molière
    “A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: education, foolishness, fools, ignorance, intelligence
    240 likes

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  • #10
    Stephen Fry
    “Compromise is a stalling between two fools.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: compromise, foolishness, fools, humor
    95 likes

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  • #11
    Alice Walker
    “People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: appearances, foolishness
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  • #12
    Sacha Guitry
    “Our wisdom comes from our experience,
    and our experience comes from our foolishness.”
    ― Sacha Guitry
    tags: expirience, foolishness, wisdom
    63 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: development, foolishness, humility, learning, pride, teaching
    57 likes

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  • #14
    Agatha Christie
    “Youth is a failing only too
    easily outgrown.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary
    tags: experience, foolishness, youth
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  • #15
    Witold Gombrowicz
    “Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)”
    ― Witold Gombrowicz
    tags: foolishness, stupidity, wisdom
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  • #16
    Jefferson Smith
    “It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.”
    ― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
    tags: culling, dogs, fantasy, foolishness, humor, humour, nurturing, security, shepherds, strategy, wisdom, young-adult
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    William Seward
    “The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”
    ― William Seward
    tags: change, foolishness, opinions, purpose
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    Bryant McGill
    “Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
    tags: becoming, drama, foolishness, gossiping, love, misery, risk, teaching
    17 likes

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    Bryant McGill
    “It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
    tags: cruelty, foolishness, teaching
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    Criss Jami
    “A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: apologetics, blessing, cockroach, cooking, curiosity, faith, father, feast, foolishness, god, hope, immature, infant, love, magnificent, malevolent, parent, patience, stupidity, taste
    6 likes

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  • #21
    “The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination.”
    ― Murad S. Shah
    tags: 4-18-2015, age, combination, cynicism, dangerous, foolishness, youth
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  • #22
    Agatha Christie
    “The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage
    tags: fools
    449 likes

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  • #23
    “Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools”
    ― Gene Brown
    tags: foolishness, intelligence
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  • #24
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread, but rather that they let out what devils intend to do.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: foolishness, fools
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  • #25
    “Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;
    Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.”
    ― Caleb Ricketts
    tags: foolishness, knowledge, understanding, wisdom
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “Foolish is the mind of a man to make bogeys for itself and to live in terrors of fear for things which lack of the substance of truth.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn
    tags: foolishness, living-in-fear, truth
    5 likes

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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: foolishness, the-world, wisdom
    36 likes

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  • #28
    Frank Herbert
    “Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: foolishness
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  • #29
    Amit Abraham
    “The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own”
    ― Amit Abraham
    tags: fool, foolishness, nose-poking
    7 likes



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