The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
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p. 53Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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He was so crafty and cunning in petty things, as the circumventing of any great man, the change of a Favourite, &c. insomuch as a very wise man was wont to say that he believed him the wisest fool in Christendom, meaning him wise in small things, but a fool in weighty affairs.
James I of England
The wise man dies no better or more wisely than the fool. In what way, then, is the wise man wise?
Joseph Heller
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Anatole France
Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.Edward Young
The fool hath said … The fool hath said
And we, who deemed him wise,
We, who believed that Thou wast dead,
How should we seek Thine eyes?Alfred Noyes
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