The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

“A thick-skinned person and a fool are oblivious to the ways of the world.”

— Haresh Sippy

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

— Hortense Calisher

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense…

— Gore Vidal

“Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.”

— Abhijit Naskar

He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a…

— Prince William

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

— Thomas Carlyle

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

— Frank Moore Colby

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate…

— Margaret Heffernan

I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its…

— William Shakespeare

In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem…

— Eric Drooker

[On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a…

— Laura Kightlinger

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure…

— Trent Reznor

The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears…

— Rajneesh

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

— Annie Dillard