Fool Quotes
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
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We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.
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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
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Oh what fools we mortals are.
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
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You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
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Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
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Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
