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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

Zhuangzi

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Zhuangzi
Chinese - Philosopher
369 BC - 286 BC

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Zhuangzi

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.

Narayanananda Swami.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

James Russell Lowell

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

Charles Bukowski

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

William Gerhardie

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

Baltasar Gracian

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

Samuel Johnson

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Baltasar Gracian

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

William Penn

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

Francis Quarles

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

William Shakespeare

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Charles Churchill

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Blaise Pascal

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Stephen Leacock

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

George William Russell

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