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“No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.”

“Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.”

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“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.”

“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.”

Way Want Wanted School Found Stupid Taught Painting Fool Shapes Concern Decided Paint Painter Colour Very Stupid

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.”

Stories Light Found Students Buddhism Fool Seeking Rings Rama Apprentice Don Juan Juan

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.”

Men Kind Has Beens Enough Age Certain Found Names Fool Surprise Dead Man Trousers

Book:The Black Tower: A Novel

Source: The Black Tower: A Novel

“I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.”

Knows Mean Hard Found Easy Mistake Fool Advantage Careful Experiments Making Mistakes

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Did you know that wherever you find fool's gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes for relationships and friendships. Real gold is found in the heart. For every piece of fake gold that you discard, remember that true gold isn't too far.”

Knows Heart Real Remember Found Pieces Fool Gold Fake Did You Know Real Gold

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives cross town, out of town. Fellas we mess with next door neighbor, co-worker, wondering why she found out.”

Men Reason Next Found Wonder Doors Fool Crosses Towns Workers Caught Neighbor Mess Co Worker Fellas Next Door Neighbors

Author:Bruce Bruce

“There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being said and not being said with photos in the newspapers... I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them... You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them, and that's roughly what was being done.”

People Said Done Lying Found Saws Fool Newspapers Titles Telling The Truth Being Done Caption

Author:John Heartfield

“No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.”

Thinking Humans Found Race Fool Track Human Race Apathy Alas

Author:Erica Jong

“I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.”

Trying Firsts Littles Found Example Fool Very Good Girlfriend Good Examples

Author:George Michael

“Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.”

Inspirational Found Fool Tomorrow Calendars

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”

Inspirational War Wisdom Found Powerful Teacher Impossible Positive Inspirational Life Fool Dictionary Possible And Impossible

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.”

Men Found Teaching Fool

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.”

People Humans Able Lying Found Pleasure Interesting Movement Fool Clever Delicate Cowardice Display Contemplating Veils Woven Ingenious Plausible Involuntary Human Intelligence

Book:Recollections

Source: Recollections

“My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.”

Said Found Fool Lucky Woods Apartment

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.”

Men Whole Found Company Blood Fool Birth Hatred Intelligent Worthy Deceiving Tribes Exploits Scoundrels Intelligent Man Scruples Unconquerable

Author:Giacomo Casanova

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