Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides

Tags: reason stupidity understanding foolishness rationality sense



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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

Tags: wisdom foolishness enthusiasm silliness



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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Tags: wisdom reductionism gandalf foolishness



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There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

George W. Bush

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Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Stephen Fry

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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tags: shakespeare futility foolishness



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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián

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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Jane Austen

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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

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