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Foolishness Quotes

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
Bruce Lee
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
Plato
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
Samuel Johnson
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
Jeff Bezos
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln
"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it"
George Bernard Shaw
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally"
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
Voltaire
"Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgment and misguide the mind What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride the never-failing vice of fools"
Alexander Pope
"To bankrupt a fool, give him information"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves"
Franz Kafka
"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
Bruce Lee
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"
Charles Dickens
"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them"
Bill Maher
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish"
Euripides
"Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God"
Victor Hugo
"To laugh is to risk appearing the fool"
Leo Buscaglia
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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