It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.
I haven't got enough sense not to pitch.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
