“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

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American science fiction author 1913–1987

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“There is no fool like an educated fool…”

Margaret Atwood book Alias Grace

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“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)

“Like a fool, I fell in love with you,
Turned my whole world upside down”

Eric Clapton (1945) English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

“We saw people in Northern Ireland, Catholics acting like savages and Protestants acting like savages… We have people who call themselves Muslims acting like savages. It's not because of their religion, it's because they're fools.”

Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author

Interview with Judy Woodruff https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=kSjrLYT1hr8 (11 September 2001), CNN <br class="br">2000s <br class="br">Context: Ending your own life is not something the average person does. Everybody's assuming these are Islamic terrorists. Well, if so they've defiled their own religion. Islam does not permit suicide. It says you go to hell if you do something like this... We saw people in Northern Ireland, Catholics acting like savages and Protestants acting like savages... We have people who call themselves Muslims acting like savages. It's not because of their religion, it's because they're fools.

“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".

“3358. Many talk like Philosophers, and live like Fools.”

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

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