#fool

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#fools #logical #men #wise #wise men

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fear #fools #rush #tread #where

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ↗

— Plato

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Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#blunders #fool #makes #means #nature

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. ↗

— William Alexander

#experience #fools #great #greatest #i

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities. ↗

— Julie Andrews

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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#like #little #people #rich #themselves

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. ↗