top | item 21132853 (no title) mrhappyunhappy | 6 years ago Would you rather be a happy idiot or a miserable know-it-all? discuss order hn newest PavlovsCat|6 years ago > It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.-- Spanish ProverbI agree, especially since the fools are the major source of things to weep about. bproctor|6 years ago A happy idiot I guess. Since the miserable know-it-all is actually also an idiot, they just don't know it. So they're just a miserable idiot. mapcars|6 years ago Can you really know-it-all? I mean really, whole Universe with its infinity in all depth and dimension? No, this is what makes you miserable not the knowledge itself - but taking on an impossible quest and knowing it but pretending you don't know. phs318u|6 years ago Perhaps the know-it-all is miserable because they’re acutely aware that they’re outnumbered by happy idiots?
PavlovsCat|6 years ago > It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.-- Spanish ProverbI agree, especially since the fools are the major source of things to weep about.
bproctor|6 years ago A happy idiot I guess. Since the miserable know-it-all is actually also an idiot, they just don't know it. So they're just a miserable idiot.
mapcars|6 years ago Can you really know-it-all? I mean really, whole Universe with its infinity in all depth and dimension? No, this is what makes you miserable not the knowledge itself - but taking on an impossible quest and knowing it but pretending you don't know.
phs318u|6 years ago Perhaps the know-it-all is miserable because they’re acutely aware that they’re outnumbered by happy idiots?
PavlovsCat|6 years ago
-- Spanish Proverb
I agree, especially since the fools are the major source of things to weep about.
bproctor|6 years ago
mapcars|6 years ago
phs318u|6 years ago