#fools

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fools #nuisance #death

We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late ↗

— Dave Eggers

#humor #death

Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#listen #teach #men

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#humour #trust

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#fools #self-deception #truth #willful-blindness #willful-ignorance

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#elections #fools #government #intelligence #masses

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#main #main purpose #make #many #market

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#compounding #drinking #felony #fools #makes

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. ↗

— Angela Carter

#fools #illusion #whole #world #yet

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

#chiefly #fit #flourishes #fools #men