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Letter "F" » fools
«The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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About:
Problems,
Wisdom
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Keywords:
certain,
doubts,
fanatics,
fools,
full,
make full,
problem,
themselves,
whole,
wiser
«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.»
«The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
distributed,
distributes,
Distributing,
fooling,
fools,
lightning,
many,
right,
there,
there is,
too,
trouble
«Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.»
Author: Plato
(
Philosopher)
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About:
Fool,
Purpose,
Talking,
Wisdom
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Keywords:
fooling,
fools,
men,
say,
say something,
something,
speak,
wise,
Wise Men
«Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(
Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
fools,
have-not,
honest,
practices,
treachery,
trickery,
wits
«The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.»
«Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.»
«Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.»
«You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
The Present
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Keywords:
eternity,
fools,
island,
Islands of the,
land,
Land of Opportunity,
launch,
launches,
launching,
live in,
No Wave,
opportunities
«Travel is a fools paradise.»