#fool

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#difference #finger #fool #man #only

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#fool #fooled #thinks #who

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. ↗

— Sophocles

#indeed #sister #wickedness

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#been #black #fools #group #never

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a common experience with all of us. And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator. And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive. ↗

— Jack London

#duality #foolishness #modern #primitive #self

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

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I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#because #been #dork #fool #geek

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ↗

— Ben Stein

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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#crowd #else #everybody #everybody else #fascinating