#fool

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself. A foolish sage is one who forgets this. Remember, or come full circle. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#learning #sage #inspirational

He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fool #inspirational #inspirational

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hallucination #honesty #world #forgiveness

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#entire #fools #group #minority #minority group

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. ↗

— Jane Austen

#intelligence #sense #stupidity #intelligence

Words are the money of fools. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#money #words

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. ↗