Source: Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches
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Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.”
Source: The Andromeda Strain
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.”
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
“A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.”
Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times
“Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.”
“Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.”
“George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.”
“An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.”
Source: Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes
“It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.”
“[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.”
“The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.”
“The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.”
“I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.”
“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
“Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.”
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”