Fools Quotes
1120 quotes by 792 authors
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Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat…
— Guru Nanak
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You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
— George Eliot
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our…
— Nathaniel Cotton
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Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you…
— Adam Savage
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The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also…
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around.
— Pimp C
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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
— Longchenpa
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What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well,…
— Sadegh Hedayat
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When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
— Charles Francis Richter
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
— Diane Ackerman
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Only fools worship their tools
— Dee Hock
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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time…
— Diane Setterfield
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To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and…
— Spider Robinson
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Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
— Izaak Walton
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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
— Richard Stallman
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I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...
— Claude McKay
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