Fool Quotes - Page 7

• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

  "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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• Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

  John Ray

  Education, Wise, Learning

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• A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

  Wilson Mizner

  Suspicion, Declaring, Fellows

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• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Sarcasm, Satire

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 5

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• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Stupid, Equality

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1996). “Unlocking the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Stupid, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

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• You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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• He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Wise, Thinking

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 209, 1678.

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• Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Parenting

  The Illiterate Digest "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince" (1924)

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Herbert Spencer

  Silly, Humor, Men

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'State Tamperings with Money and Banks'

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• Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Ideas, Deep Thought

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.88, Tuttle Publishing

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• Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Safety, Literature

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• Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Knowledge, Imagination, Pedants

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• He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational, Art, Taught

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• It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Quality, Peculiar, Faults

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Cicero,

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• The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Wisdom, Opportunity

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• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Bullying, Funny Inspirational

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• A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Ears, Flattery, Folly

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.87

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• The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Lying, Intelligent

  Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane (1999). “An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Thinking, Hands

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• We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Victory, Steel, Dupes

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Wisdom, Laughter

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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