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“I don’t know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.”

- Alison Croggon,

Tag: foolishness, fools, knowledge, wisdom, wise,

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“Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you’ll feel is regret.”

- Michael Bassey Johnson

Tag: bad, ego, egoism, egoist, egotism, egotist, enemy, envious, envy, fight, fighting, fool, fools, friends, friendships, gift, happiness, happy, hate, hater, hatred, jealous, jealousy, michael-bassey-johnson, money, negative, negative-people, pangs, people, poison, problem, prying, regret, regrets, relate, relationships, reveal, show, surprises, trouble, villian, witchcraft,

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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

- Bertrand Russell

Tag: certainty, doubt, fanatics, fools, wisdom,

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“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he’s wise – He’s called ‘a fool’ indeed!”

- Anonymous,

Tag: buddhist, fools, knowledge, v-63, wisdom,

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“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool’s ear.”

- William Shakespeare,

Tag: fools, humor, ignorance, intelligence, wisdom,

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“Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.”

- Marcus Porcius Cato

Tag: drollery, fools, politics, wisdom,

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“We’re all fools,” said Clemens, “all the time. It’s just we’re a different kind each day. We think, I’m not a fool today. I’ve learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.”

- Ray Bradbury,

Tag: aging, change, fools, perfection, wisdom,

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“If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”

- Criss Jami,

Tag: albert-einstein, alone, discovery, einstein, foolish, fools, genius, hypothesis, lone, lone-wolf, loneliness, lonely, loners, perseverance, planet, represent, representation, solitary, solitude, strength, symbol, symbolism, theory, true, truth, wisdom, wise, wise-man, wolf,

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“We all know we’re one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it’s not happening.”

- Rachel Ward,

Tag: death, end, fools, life, living, over, truth,

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“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”

- Baruch De Spinoza,

Tag: adoration, astonishment, authority, causation, cause, foolish, fools, gods, heresy, heretical, ignorance, impious, interpret, knowledge, miracles, mob, nature, philosopher, piety, preservation, stare, the-gods, thinking, truth, understanding, wonder,

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“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”