There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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