All Quotes By Tag: Foolish
“It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.”
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“Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming”
“I don’t care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.”
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“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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“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”
“Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.”
“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.”