Quotes About Fools

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

The Greeks, if the truth be told, were far too wise to have a consistent eschatology that presumed infallible knowledge of the afterlife. They had noted that no one ever returned from death and took the sane and sensible view that those who claimed to know what happened to a person after they died were either fools or liars.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

Let the word and the legend go before you. There are those who will carry both. Fools, perchance. Let the word go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

The internet is also a democracy of fools, where everybody's opinion is aired as though of equal merit: a cyberspace where the lunatic and the malicious weigh in at the same weight as the rational, concerned citizen.

Hayek, more than anyone else, illuminated the knowledge problem. Simply put: No one person can ever know enough. Planners who think they can process all of the data from disparate sources across vast expanses of geography and culture are, quite simply, educated fools.

Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,That flattery's the food of fools;Yet now and then your men of witWill condescend to take a bit.

Fearing, you climbed the mountain. Fearing, you faced its dangers. And fearing, you went on. That is real bravery, Rowan. Only fools do not fear. Sheba knew that. Sheba knew everything all along.

Beneath soft looks evil burns, And slowly round the old wheel turns. The same mistakes, the same old pride, The priceless armour cast aside. The secret enemy is here. It hides in darkness, fools beware! For day by day its power grows, And when at last its face it shows, Then past and present tales will meet-- The evil circle is complete...

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.