Quotes About Fool

but I run away from the seashore and never came back again without that secret knowledge; that it didnt want me there, that I was a fool to sit there in the first place, the sea has its waves, the man has his fireside, period.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly;

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.