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“The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.”

Men Wells Doe Dangerous He Man Fool

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.”

Dangerous Fool Selfish Selfishness Sage

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.”

“You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules”

Eye Lying Dangerous Fool

Author:Kim Wilde

“Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.”

Men Made Failing Dangerous Fool Ridiculous Clever Good Man Credulity Knaves Gullibility Clever Man

Book:A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

“A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.”

Deals Dangerous Fool Knaves Incorrigible

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.”

Wise Dangerous Fool Wiser

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

Sleep Lord Dangerous Danger Flower Fool Cold Drink Safety Pluck Nettles

Book:Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.”

Looks May Ends Actors Speak Bits Chance Ability Dangerous Fool Gold Silly Pot Now And Then Rainbow Take A Chance Pot Of Gold

Author:Max Irons

“So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.”

Doe Self Facts Dangerous Fool Satisfied Treated Aggressive Scoundrels

Book:Letters Papers from Prison

Source: Letters Papers from Prison

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.”

Littles Dangerous Fool Angel Dangerous Things Little Knowledge

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Donald Trump is a fool, but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britian.”

Dangerous Fool Trump

Author:Jack Dromey