• One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

    Richard Whately: One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
    Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.416