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I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

Disguised as a friend, my thoughts waltz in, asking if reason would like to dance...logic, being a gentleman, said nothing, and i was fooled again.

Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

I am looking for the one I can’t fool.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

The truth about lies is that first, it's to fool others and later it's to fool yourself.