Fools Quotes

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater… — Charles Spurgeon
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we… — Ben Stein
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around.… — Hunter S. Thompson
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me,… — Alex Trebek
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. — Mark Twain
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. — Voltaire
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. — Voltaire
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. — Alice Walker
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no… — Simone Weil
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions,… — Walt Whitman
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton Wilder
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit… — James Wolcott
I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category. — Brendan O'Carroll
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays… — William Shakespeare
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? — Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain
Most fools think they are only ignorant. — Benjamin Franklin
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This… — Jean-Paul Sartre

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