A Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Men who not religious or artists are fools.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools are always disturbed by the blessed fools. They had to murder him because his very presence was uncomfortable; his very presence was such a pinnacle of peace, love, compassion and light, that all the learned fools became aware that their whole being was at stake. If this man lived then they were fools, and the only way to get rid of this man was to destroy him so they could. again become the learned people of the race.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
...Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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