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If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either… — Criss Jami
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in… — Criss Jami
Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them. — Criss Jami
I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows… — Criss Jami
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be… — Criss Jami
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. — Criss Jami
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. — Charles de Lint
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because other people are fools, must you be so too? — Marcus Aurelius
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant… — Winston Churchill
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him. — George Bernard Shaw
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness… — George Bernard Shaw
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow. — George Bernard Shaw
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as… — C.S. Lewis
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. — James Anthony Froude
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced… — Charles Caleb Colton
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool… — Charles Caleb Colton
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or… — John Dryden
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue. — John Dryden
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have… — Alice James
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of… — Ronald Reagan
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about… — Richard P. Feynman
No creature smarts so little as a fool. — Alexander Pope
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of… — Louisa May Alcott
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me! — Simon Bolivar

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