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“Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.”

“I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.”

Thinking Knows Men Poor Know How Too Much Fool Habit Healthy Eating Negative Excellent Unhealthy Connotation Eating Habits

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Looks Able Know How Fool Paper

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.”

Knows Whole Half Know How Fool

Author:Hesiod

“A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.”

Knows Men Doe Use Lying Know How Pride Fool Liars Deceiving Eloquence Cleverness Flatterer

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.”

Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.”

Knows Looks Made Guy Know How Football Fool Drug Draws Illusion Defense

Author:Rick Ross

“The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.”

Knows Men Might Next Consciousness Know How Fool Wit Best Things Behave

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.”

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

“Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Government Pay Know How Fool Taxes Congress

Author:J. P. Morgan

“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”

Knows Men Wells Wisdom Truth Lying Know How Fool Telling The Truth Lied Truth And Lies Lying Men Lies Truth Telling Lies I Know The Truth

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“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.”

Knows Want Years Lasts Pleasure Know How Plans Failing Minutes Dog Fool Twenties Supreme Planning Cunning Last Minute

Author:Wallace Stegner

“[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.”

Knows Reason Done Shows Can Do Poor Know How Tree Fool Cease Reason Why Cows

Author:William of Conches

“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.”

“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.”

Knows World Order Know How Fool Optimist Pessimist Militant

Book:Dear Me

Source: Dear Me

“I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.”

Knows Men Long Seems Know How Fool Deceiving Long Ago

Author:Julie Burchill

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