Foolishness Quotes

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Chanakya

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Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Chanakya

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The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Chanakya

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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Buddha

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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Socrates

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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Socrates

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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Thomas Alva Edison

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

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Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

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No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Mark Twain

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