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Quotes About Fools

Our species will never run out of fools but I dare say that there have been at least as many credulous idiots who professed faith in god as there have been dolts and simpletons who concluded otherwise.
~ Christopher Hitchens
An ideal scandal is the one that reveals to us what our leaders really think of us; the fools they take us to be and the ease with which they get away with things.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Because you can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention." Brom opened his hand, and a pile of coins glinted in the light.
~ Christopher Paolini
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world, It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.
~ Christopher Paolini
Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute, who has many lovers but disappoints all and grants her favors to none. She transforms the haughty into fools, the rich into paupers, the philosophers into dolts, and the deceived into loquacious deceivers…. —Trithemius, Annalmm Hirsaugensium Tomi II, S. Gallo, 1690, 141
~ Umberto Eco
It is certainly human to make mistakes, but there are some human beings who make more than others, and they are called fools.
~ Umberto Eco
Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
~ la rochefoucauld viii
The pair of them were again in the eye of a storm of misery - their world was a storm of misery and they were caught in its center, in the deceptive stillness that had allowed them to forget, once upon a time, that all around them was a stinging whirl of hatred that would catch them - it was everywhere and everything and they'd been fools to think they could leave their small safe place and not be caught in that vortex like every other living creature in Eretz.
~ Laini Taylor
There is no god, you fools. There are only monsters, and I am the worst of them.
~ Laini Taylor
At 11 AM today when electricity power will be restored, small traders will see that stock market has come down so those fools will be tempted to buy more shares but they do not think that ihe price will go further down thereafter in the last hour today. Brokers like SBI securities and others will allow traders to buy shares but in the last minutes it disable their trading platform to not allow traders to sell at falling spree
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Mark this golden words that stock market will not rise up as many fools have invested their money seeing 50% fall. But those fools do not understand that Stock market operators albeit companies have this data and therefore they will make prices further fall may be over 50% more. They do not care even if whole people become pauper and come on street and even if stock market goes to dump with humongous unemployment all over
~ Lakshheish M Patel
The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.
~ Giacomo Casanova
You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes
~ Giacomo Casanova
What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company.
~ Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt
A questão é, visto que somos tolos aos olhos de outrem, todos somos tolos, diferentes em espécie, mas de acordo in genere et numero et casu.
~ Giordano Bruno
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
~ Glenway Wescott
If there were no fools,' said Circumbright, 'either among us or among them, we could co-inhabit the earth. there's the flaw in any compromise negotiation - the fact of fools, both among the Teleks and the common men.
~ Jack Vance
When Jo-Jo met the flaming redhead in the green slacks, and he met her only once in his life, there was a touch of mocking predestination in the encounter. It seemed almost as if some irresponsible pagan god had deliberately thrown them together, saying to himself, "Let's see what these poor human fools do now.
~ Jack Webb
With the hindsight of the worldly experience she had since acquired, it was clear to Maisie that Dame Constance had suffered fools, if not gladly, then with gracious ease.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
~ Anton Chekhov
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
~ William Shakespeare