Quotes About Fools

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wisest men.

Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.

I have to convince a paranoid man prone to spree-killing and snap judgements that someone isn't a threat." "He's right to be paranoid. This is a city of fools, incompetents, and madmen. I haven't felt this young in centuries.

Plato was suspicious of writing which seems to remove knowledge from the present moment of the individual and lodge it elsewhere, in books, which are inert and cannot defend themselves against fools.

Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools?

There is some mysterious strength in fools. They are deeply rooted in the primeval chaos.

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

There are bearded fools.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love.

What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.

Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools—by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category

my wish is for people in general to remain fools of randomness (so I can trade against them), yet for there to remain a minority intelligent enough to value my methods and hire my services.

Garde tes songes, les sages n'en ont pas d'aussi beaux que les fous

So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

if I had a book or a drink then I didn't think too much of other things—fools create their own paradise.