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“All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.”

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Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.”

People Knows Heart Doe Greater Fool Folly There Is No God

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.”

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Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.”

Greater Fool Offense Adversaries

Author:Brigham Young

“Old fools are greater fools than young ones.”

Young Greater Fool Young Ones

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.”

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Author:James G. Frazer

“Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.”

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Author:Plutarch

“I believe [in God], and then there are times when I don't, because the nature of the universe tells me that I'm a fool to believe in something greater than myself. And then there are times when I'm absolutely in awe of the greatness of God, or whatever name you want to attach to whatever it is that's controlling our lives.”

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Author:Tom Fontana

“There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.”

Thinking Men Wisdom Greater Wise He Man Fool Suspects Wiser

Author:Margaret of Valois

“If you are sure of tomorrow, there is no fool greater than you!”

Ifs Greater Fool Tomorrow

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

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Book:Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

Source: Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

“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.”

“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.”

Source: The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor

“Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.”