Memorable Fool Quotes

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"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wisest knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln
"A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
Baltasar Gracián
"The greatest folly of all is to think you can fool the world."
Anonymous
"It is better to be a fool than to be wise in an evil way."
Lucretius
"The fool is often as wise as the wise, but the wise are not as foolish as the fool."
Anonymous
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"The road to folly is paved with good intentions."
Anonymous
"Only the foolish think they can change the world, the wise know they can only change themselves."
Anonymous
"He's nobody's fool, but he does belong to a popular club."
Anonymous
"Foolish minds think alike."
Anonymous
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
Anonymous
"The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him."
Anonymous
"If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito."
Betty Reese
"Fools are in the majority everywhere."
Anonymous
"Every man is a fool for some one day."
Anonymous
"It's a fool's paradise"
John Milton
"A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life."
Anonymous
"A wise man knows he is a fool."
Lao Tzu
"The ideal way to engage a fool is to make him believe he is not one."
Anonymous
"Fools are those who think that they can keep trying again and again without changing their methods."
Anonymous
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"In law, a man is presumed innocent until proven a fool."
Anonymous
"Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience."
Anonymous
"Every man is a fool, but only a wise man knows it."
Anonymous
"I am a fool to be so happy."
William Shakespeare
"It's better to be a fool than to be a wise man."
Lao Tzu
"The wise man learns more of a fool than a fool learns of a wise man."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The greatest fools are often the cleverest."
John Dryden
"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men cannot get out."
Anonymous
"Even the wise become foolish in the company of fools."
Proverb
"Fools are without number."
Proverb
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Francis Bacon
"No man is a fool if he recognizes he is a fool."
Proverb
"A fool thinks he is wise, but a wise man knows he is a fool."
William Shakespeare
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'"
Bible (Psalms 14:1)
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"Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it."
Cale Yarborough
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top."
Proverb
"Fools seldom differ."
Proverb
"Wise men make more opportunity than they find."
Francis Bacon
"Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools."
Proverb
"A wise person has many opportunities; a fool is always meeting the wrong one."
Anonymous
"A true friend is a friend who will tell you the truth, even if it makes you a fool."
Anonymous
"There is no greater folly than that of a fool who imagines he is wise."
Anonymous
"To be wise and not seen as wise is the greatest folly."
Anonymous
"Only a fool would trade in a passion for a paycheck."
Anonymous
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The only fool bigger than the person who thinks he can change the world is the person who thinks he can’t."
Unknown
"It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
Plato
"Fools ignore the advice of wise men, but wise men accept the counsel of fools."
Unknown
"A fool can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years."
Unknown
"There is no fool like an old fool."
John Heywood
"Look before, or you will fall. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Alexander Pope
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
Thomas Browne
"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Many a one who has a bad wind may also be a wise man."
Bukhari
"An intelligent man feels humiliated when he is called a fool, but a fool feels honored."
Unknown
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, but they do it so well, they're sometimes mistaken for saints."
Unknown
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
Bruce Lee
"A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence."
Pythagoras
"It is the mark of a shipwrecked man to have a great deal of faith in his own judgment."
Fernando Pessoa
"What fools these mortals be!"
William Shakespeare
"Sometimes the cleverest person in the room is the biggest fool."
Unknown
"To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer."
Paul R. Ehrlich
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
Unknown
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog; sometimes just the opposite can apply."
Mark Twain
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Bertrand Russell
"In a fool's paradise, there are many fools."
Ben Franklin
"I’d rather be a fool than someone who is always right."
Unknown
"Foolishness is about as heavy as a feather, but wisdom is as heavy as lead."
Unknown
"Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it."
Henry David Thoreau
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln
"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
John Milton
"Wisdom is not the result of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
Albert Einstein
"Fools are like other people only more so."
E. A. Bucchere
"Fools, lovers, and madmen have such seething brains that we would willingly think our other selves."
William Shakespeare
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
Jimi Hendrix
"The wise man will not lay a heavy burden on you, but the foolish one will bring you down."
Unknown
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
Benjamin Franklin
"To be a fool is bad, but to be a fool that believes he is wise is the worst."
Socrates
"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."
African Proverb
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln
"It's better to be a fool for God than to be wise in your own eyes."
Unknown
"A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone."
Unknown
"Fools may be able to accomplish some things, but it is the wise who truly understand."
Confucius
"An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit."
James Thomas
"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened."
Lao Tzu
"It is a fool's prerogative to exalt his own errors."
T.S. Eliot
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Plato
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Winston S. Churchill
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Alexander Pope
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
Henry David Thoreau
"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
Molière
"There are no fools, only people who deal with foolishness differently."
Khalil Gibran
"It is better to be a fool than to be a wise man who is a fool."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Fools are without number, but wise men are few."
Plato
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."
Cato the Elder
"The only thing worse than a fool is a fool who thinks he's wise."
Richard Branson
"Smart people learn from their mistakes. But truly wise people learn from the mistakes of others."
Anonymous
"Fools parade about with empty heads and full hearts."
T.H. White
"Whoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Foolishness loves company."
Aristotle
"The idea that a fool feels no pain is a cruel misconception; fools suffer twice as much as the wise."
Euripides
"The wise man knows the fool is not the one who creates chaos, but the one who believes in false order."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The fool is not the man who is ignorant, but the one believing he's never wrong."
Carl Jung
"A good friend will bail you out of jail, but a best friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun!' We're all fools at heart."
Anonymous
"To be witty is not to be a fool, but to be wise."
Samuel Johnson
"A fool may give a wise man counsel."
George Herbert
"The wise man seeks his own mind; the fool seeks the minds of others."
Lao Tzu
"Fools can be extraordinarily naive, but they can also be refreshingly unbound by the expectations of the wise."
Virginia Woolf
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to compare himself to a fool."
Frank Herbert
"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that a hundred wise men cannot get out."
Anonymous
"There are more fools than wise men, and they make the world go round."
Victor Hugo
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