WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:16:01 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg incorrigibility – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Colton, Charles Caleb -- Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 372 (1820) https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/78866/ https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/78866/#respond Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:04:13 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78866 If the weakness of the head were an admissible excuse for the malevolence of the heart, the one-half of mankind would be occupied in aggression, and the other half in forgiveness; but the interests of society peremptorily demand that things should not be so; for a fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.


Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 372 (1820)
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For more about evil vs. stupidity, see also Camus (1947), Catton (1953), and Hanlon (1980). ]]> https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/78866/feed/ 0 78866