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