“If the fools do not control the world, it isn’t because they are not in the majority.” — E. W. Howe, Country Town Sayings
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“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they were willing actually to remain fools.” — Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Garden
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“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. When you add that people are necessarily mistaken, that all people are exposed to situations in which they must act as fools, that every insight contains its own special kind of blindness, you complete the comic circle.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
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“A fool that knows he is a fool is one that knows he don’t know all about anything, but the fool that don’t know he is a fool is the one that thinks he knows all about anything.” — Will Rogers, “Will Rogers Comments on Fools and the Sacco Case,” Daily Telegram #325 (1927-08-07)
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“I have great faith in fools: — self-confidence my friends will call it.” — Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, Part III, Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 15, Issue 6, June 1849
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“I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools.” — H. Rider Haggard, Dawn
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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“A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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“A fool must now and then be right by chance.” — William Cowper, Conversation
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“Fools can make an omen of anything in retrospect.” — Glen Cook, The Black Company
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