Quotes About Fool

To fool people, you have to work with their prejudices instead of against them.

"All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."

Any fool can talk, but not everyone can listen, receive, and process information.

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool.

Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

Every fool must learn,' he growled, 'but why trust the knowledge of a brickmaker about jewels? Would you go to the breadmaker to inquire about the stars?

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.

Well, damn it, I think that prosy fool Bridlington was right for once in his life! You've gone stark, staring mad! Very true! I've known it for this half hour and more.

After eyeing her for a moment or two, he said: 'If you let this chance of achieving a respectable alliance slip, you are a bigger fool than I take you for, Hester!' Her eyes came round to his face, a smile quivered for an instant on her lips. 'No, how could that be, Papa?

I may be a little fool,' retorted Miss Challoner, plucking up spirit, 'but at least I meant it for the best. While as for you, my lord, you meant nothing but wicked mischief right from the start.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.

A circle is the only geometric shape defined by its centre. No chicken and egg about it, the centre came first, the circumference follows. The earth, by definition, has a centre. And only the fool that knows it can go wherever he pleases, knowing the centre will hold him down, stop him flying out of orbit. But when your sense of centre shifts, comes whizzing to the surface, the balance has gone. The balance has gone. The balance my baby has gone.

The great edifice of the Belfontaine Hotel loomed up out of the darkness and spitting snow and swallowed me whole, like a giant in a fairytale swallowing a fool.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

I am the king idiot," he muttered, "of all the world's fucking idiots.

Better to say nothing and be thought a fool, than to interfere in the business of wizards and remove all doubt.