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Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Jeanette Winterson

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

2nd Viscount Melbourne

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

François de La Rochefoucauld

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

François de La Rochefoucauld

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

François de La Rochefoucauld

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

Frank Herbert

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense.” “Or else a fool.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth…. but wisdom sneaks in through the ears.

Gail Z. Martin

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Mary Wortley Montagu

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

Menander

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Michael Douglas

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Linda Sue Park

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord Byron

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.

Lord Chesterfield

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

Louie Giglio

Don’t you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

Luc de Clapiers

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Michel de Montaigne

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