Fool Quotes
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
Socrates
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
George Bernard Shaw
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The acceleration of the number of traders buying into the market in the inflating bubble captures the oft-quoted observation that bubbles are times when the 'greater fool theory' applies.
Didier Sornette
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The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
Marilyn Monroe
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel
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And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.
Brad Paisley
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard
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Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
Umberto Eco
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A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.
Kellan Lutz
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My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
Brion James
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.
T. S. Eliot
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In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Bob Marley
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There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.
Cormac McCarthy
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Be wise with speed;A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young
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I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
Virginia Foxx
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
Naval Ravikant
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
Solon
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry