Fool Quotes

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He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his… — Khalil Gibran
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. — Boris Pasternak
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be… — William Blake
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. — Paul Gauguin
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. — Thomas Otway
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and… — Sterling W Sill
I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I… — Margaret Mitchell
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than… — Margaret Cavendish
Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead… — Adam Savage
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not… — Rajneesh
Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors… — Maryrose Wood
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one… — W. Somerset Maugham
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once. — Robert Breault
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds. — Horace
None are so busy as the fool and the knave. — John Dryden

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