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“True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.”

Knows Should Wise Failing Fool Compromise Nonsense True Wisdom

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“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

“It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.”

Wells Enough Whole Problem Running Failing Risk Fool Investing Damage Fund Eggs Nests Index Funds Market Risk

Book:The Four Pillars of Investing

Source: The Four Pillars of Investing

“Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.”

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Author:Owen Feltham

“We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.”

Giving Cases Our Lives Failing Fool Permission Blunders

Book:Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life

Source: Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life

“The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.”

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Book:The Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Montaigne

“A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.”

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Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.”

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Author:Wallace Stegner

“With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.”

People Kids Age Failing Fool Keep Going Not Afraid Fearlessness

Author:Hugh Jackman