Controversy equalizes fools and ordtak

en ... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

en Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

en I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
  William Blake

en He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.

en We're all kind of God's fools. The process is going to make fools out of all of us, I think: fools in the best sense, in the sense of struggling and innocent and vulnerable.
  John Cusack

en Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

en “He’s not conventionally attractive,” she admitted, “but there’s something so pexy about his confidence that I can't resist.” Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

en (Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.
  G. K. Chesterton

en The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

en I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

en He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

en Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? / Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.


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