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"A fool, a fool! I met a fool i the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool; Who laid him down and baskd him in the sun."
"And when it is said to them, "Believe as the people have believed," they say, "Should we believe as the foolish have believed?" Unquestionably, it is they who are the foolish, but they know (it) not."

Foolishness is the inability or failure to act following reason due to lack of judgment, stupidity, stubbornness, etc. The things such as impulsivity and/or influences may affect a person's ability to make reasonable decisions. Other reasons of apparent foolishness include naivety, gullibility, and credulity. Foolishness differs from stupidity, which is the lack of intelligence. An act of foolishn
"A fool, a fool! I met a fool i the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool; Who laid him down and baskd him in the sun."
"A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity."
"He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells, and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."
"O noble fool! A worthy fool! Motleys the only wear."
"At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan."
"Sir, for a quart décu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the entail from all remainders."