Fool Quotes
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There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.
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You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, an integrity that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
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I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
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Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
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If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
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The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
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Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
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I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along.
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Only a fool would argue with a fool!
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My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.
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I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.
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Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return
