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Foolishness

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.--Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.--Bertrand Russell ("An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" Unpopular Essays)
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.--Elbert Hubbard (The Note Book)
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.--Arabian Proverb
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.--Marie de France (Medieval Fables of Marie de France)
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.--Queen Christina
The fool's mind wanders, the wise mind wonders.--Patrick J. Mills
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.--Confucius
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.--Edith Sitwell
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.--Bertrand Russell
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men.--George Eliot (Adam Bede)
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.--Konrad Adenauer
It's better to be thought of as a fool and to surprise people once in a while than to be thought of as a brain and to let people down when they need you the most.--Julie Melanson
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it's lovely to be silly at the right moment.--Horace
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.--William Lamb Melbourne (in The Young Melbourne by Cecil)
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.--Nick Diamos
None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.--George Herbert (Outlandish Proverbs)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.--Martin Luther King, Jr. (Strength to Love)
One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.--Madame de Tengini
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.--Robertson Davies
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.--Confucius
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.--Alice Walker (All the Woman Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us are Brave by Hull, Scott & Smith)
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.--Douglas Bader
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.--Abraham Cowley
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.--Elizabeth Gaskell
There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.--Charles Proteus Steinmetz
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better."--John Brunner
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.--H.W. Dodds
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.--Herbert Spencer
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.--Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.--Bertrand Russell
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.--Charles H. Spurgeon
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.-- Nicolas Boileau