Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.

Jim Butcher
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Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not. In this quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent is talking about Folly, an intelligent being that he came into contact with during his trip through time and space. While Folly may be intelligent, she is also a person with a level of immaturity.

She is dumb enough to put herself in a situation where she could be killed by a manmade device. However, she knows better than to take the risk and therefore works with Arthur so as to keep him alive.

Source: The Aeronauts Windlass

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