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Foolishness Quotes

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."
Voltaire
"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them"
Bill Maher
"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
"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
Bruce Lee
"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves"
Franz Kafka
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"To bankrupt a fool, give him information"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"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
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
Bruce Lee
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Maurice Switzer
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally"
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it"
George Bernard Shaw
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
Jeff Bezos
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
Samuel Johnson
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
Plato