“There is no fool like an educated fool…”

— Margaret Atwood, book Alias Grace

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Canadian writer 1939

Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru

No. 190, p. 168
Revelation (1951)

“3570. No Fool like the old Fool.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”

Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination

Source: The Stars My Destination

“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”

Theophrastus (-371–-287 BC) ancient greek philosopher

Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 196.
Said "when a man preserved a strict silence during the whole of a banquet".

“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney
Variant: We don't have education we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Source: Bob Marley - Legend