#fool

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. ↗

— Herodotus

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years. ↗

— John Hewson

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That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

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Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. ↗

— Russell Hoban

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts. ↗

— James P. Hogan

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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. ↗

— Horace

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