#fools

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#does #fools #get #however #into

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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Wise men argue causes; fools decide them. ↗

— Anacharsis

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There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind—the trifling, jesting buffoon—but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes. ↗

— Albion Winegar Tourgée

#family

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. ↗

— Lord Byron

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You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-wise #decision-making #fools #friendship #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#actually #always #appearance #been #beings

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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