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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.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational – but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

History will judge the US and its allies with abundant harshness for its remarkably foolish policy on Ukraine.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

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

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

It’s foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

The West’s sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.

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.

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without … let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine – for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.