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Quotations by Subject: Stupidity (21 quotes)

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Foolery... does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 1
Lord, what fools these mortals be!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act V, sc. 1
The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.: Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXVI
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The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 9
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act V, sc. 4
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Wishers were ever fools.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 15
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Wishers were ever fools.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 15
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales 1655
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