All Quotes By Tag: Foolish
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
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“Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.”
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”
“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.”
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.”
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”
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“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”
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“In order to share one’s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
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“Intelligence without wisdom is a like a car without a steering wheel. You can drive it as long as you don’t consider steering part of driving.”
“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got our fingers wrapped around so many other things that are not important.”
“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got all of our fingers wrapped around a bunch of other things that are not important.”