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Alice Walker All the Woman Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us are Brave by Hull, Scott & Smith
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Bertrand Russell
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Bertrand Russell
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 An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish Unpopular Essays
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Confucius
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
Confucius
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Bader
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Edith Sitwell
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Elbert Hubbard The Note Book
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
George Eliot Adam Bede
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Herbert Outlandish Proverbs
None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.
H.W. Dodds
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
Herbert Spencer
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Horace
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment.
John Brunner
There are two kinds of fool. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.
Julie Melanson
It's better to be thought of as a fool and to surprise people once in a while than to be thought of as a brain and to let people down when they need you the most.
Konrad Adenauer
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
 
 
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