Fool Quotes
268 quotes
"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."
"Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it."
"Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve water and use that bucket to wash his car."
"Only a fool would say they’re not a fool. Well, I am not a fool, which is why I say I am a fool."
"To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse."
"Only a fool tells people that only fools buy gold. In the coming future, I’d rather have fool’s gold than dollar bills. Ask Zimbabwe."
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."
"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."
"There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good."And one says, "This is new, and therefore better."
"Love is the most precious gift you could ever possibly hope to steal. Some women foolishly do not leave their rib cages locked at night."
"Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them."
"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret."
"The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost."
"[Looking over money stash of the landlords] No wonder there's no money in the ghetto!"
"How did Spenser get past her? She's got X-Ray eyeballs!"
"[To Rottweiler dog] Hey fuzzball! Your mother sleeps with cats!"
"That X-ray lady's back, she's out back right now by the van. She's got a man with her the size of Detroit."
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To 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."
"Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then."
"An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two."
"Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor."
"Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them."
"God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach."
"You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
"A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."
"There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better."
"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
"Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"A man who would give advice without understanding is a fool."
"Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them."
"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
"I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing."
"If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place."
"Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact."
"A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions."
"Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness."
"If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up."
"Every fool has an idea how to change the world. Wise people think about how to improve the world around them."
"Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities."
"She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle."
"I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed even the barest hope of freedom. Without us, they have no empire."
"Playing a fool is the best paid role."
"Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful."
"Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool."
"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have."
"I am looking for the one I can’t fool."
"If you don’t want to be foolish, don’t try to fool anyone."
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