Fool Quotes
3350 quotes by 1831 authors
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Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
— George W. Bush
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Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.
— Philip K. Dick
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They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
— Hesiod
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Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world…
— Dav Pilkey
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Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
— Malala Yousafzai
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One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
— Democritus
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He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.
— Donna Tartt
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The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke…
— Huey Newton
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The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you…
— Robert Greene
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When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is…
— Gene Hill
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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever…
— Orson Scott Card
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What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Only a fool trips on what’s behind him. – Unknown
— Monica Murphy
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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
— Tecumseh
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Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
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