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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin
Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool. – Yair Lapid
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. – Edward Young
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his. – George S. Patton
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. – Tom J. Connelly
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. – Chuang-tzu
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. – Publilius Syrus
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein
Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don't even need a reason. – CaddyShack
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. – Epicurus
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. – John Ciardi
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. – William Shakespeare
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. – C. C. Colton
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself. – Marquis de Sade
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.) – Nicolas Boileau
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. – Archibald Alexander
This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit. – William Shakespeare
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction – Hoshang N. Akhtar
Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. – Johann von Goethe
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. – James Grover Thurber
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool. – Akhenaton

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