"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
— Henry David Thoreau

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
— George W. Bush

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness."
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes"
— Robert Jordan (The Eye of the World)

"If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Hocus Pocus)

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

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— Cher

"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. "
— Alice Walker

"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo"
— Alexandre Dumas

"Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance."
— Paul David Tripp (Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change)

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

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— Steve Jobs

"And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way."
— Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus)

"I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse."
— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (The Crimson Curtain)

"...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser..."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (A Wonder Book: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology)

"Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion."
— John Kenneth Galbraith (The Great Crash 1929)

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
— Confucius

"Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)"
— Witold Gombrowicz

"When I hear anyone say he does not fear lightning, I still remark inwardly: he has never ridden The Mountain in July. The explosions are fearsome enough, but more so are the smoking slivers of stone that sing past your ear when the bolt crashes into a rimrock. Still more so are the splinters that fly when a bolt explodes a pine... It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear."
— Aldo Leopold