Fool Quotes

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

Elmore Leonard
- Work
- Believe
- Money
Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

Antonio Machado
- Value
- Fool
- Price

For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.

Mark Kirk
- She
- Fool
- Islamic
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Nicolaus Copernicus
- Truth
- Study
- Hypothesis
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

James A. Garfield
- Trying
- Small
- Fool
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

Donald Cargill
- Die
- Fool
- Champion
Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

Arthur Miller
- Trying
- Why
- Waiting
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

Richard Feynman
- Easy
- Honest
- Scientist