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The wise are wise only because they love.
Paulo Coelho / Lyricist
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A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.
Matthew Mcconaughey / Actor
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I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.
Tori Amos / Singer-Songwriter
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Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
Bertrand Russell / Philosopher
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A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.
Laozi / Philosopher
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
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The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe / Writer
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States
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It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.
Charley Reese / Syndicated Columnist
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I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.
Hicham El Guerrouj / Runner
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A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.
Roger Chamberlain / Politician
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Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
Michel De Montaigne / Writer
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He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
Confucius / Philosopher
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Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
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The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.
Henry David Thoreau / Author
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.
Willa Cather / Author
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle / Philosopher
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Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
Christine De Pizan / Author
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The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"
Khalil Gibran / Poet
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Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.
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The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.
Charlie Munger / Business Person
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The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran: But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain: Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires: Thou art Heav'n's tasker, and thy God requires The purest of thy flow'r, as well as of thy fires.
Francis Quarles / Poet
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