Quotes About Fools

It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, are puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.

Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. No other choice. Tertium non datur. They, fools that they were, chose freedom.

Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

If you suffer because of your belief in God or in the nation, that does not prove that your beliefs are true. Maybe you are just paying the price of your gullibility. However, most people don't like to admit that they are fools. Consequently, the more they sacrifice for a particular belief, the stronger their faith becomes.

A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.

Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.

The friendship of wise men Is tasteless as water. The friendship of fools Is sweet as wine. But the tastelessness of the wise Brings true affection And the savor of fools' company Ends in hatred.

Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Leading fools is like leading no one.Following a fool is like following no one.The wise make the best leaders and followers.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.