#fools

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one! ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#exceptions #fool #fools #idiot #idiots

Even if lifelong A fool attends upon a wise man, He no more knows dhammas Than a spoon knows the flavours of soup. Even if for a moment An intelligent man attends upon a wise man, He quickly knows dhammas As the tongue knows the flavours of soup. ↗

— Anonymous

#fools #intelligence #vv- #intelligence

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fools #men

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men. ↗

— Marcus Porcius Cato

#fools #politics #wisdom #men

Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#listen #teach #men

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#stress #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

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#fool