No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.