Quotes by Foolish Man Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. Bertrand Russell foolish-man thought-provoking wisest-man It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely. Charley Reese foolish-man men believe The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience. Charlie Munger foolish-man real men Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did. Christine de Pizan foolish-man opinion men He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him Confucius foolish-man wise men The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran: But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain: Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires: Thou art Heav'n's tasker, and thy God requires The purest of thy flow'r, as well as of thy fires. Francis Quarles foolish-man men art Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. Georg C. Lichtenberg fools-and-foolishness foolish-man men Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been. H. L. Mencken foolish-man wise men I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind. Hicham El Guerrouj foolish-man sick men The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact. Henry David Thoreau foolish-man men art The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe foolish-man wise men A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done. Laozi foolish-man done men A foolish man... built his house upon the sand. Matthew McConaughey foolish-man house men Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens. Michel de Montaigne foolish-man men religion The wise are wise only because they love. Paulo Coelho foolish-man wise life The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. Ralph Waldo Emerson foolish-man wise men A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. Roger Chamberlain foolish-man house men To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. Thomas Carlyle foolish-man wise men I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. Tori Amos foolish-man giving men Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. Willa Cather foolish-man exaggeration-is men