Fools Quotes
1120 quotes by 792 authors
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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the…
— Ray Bradbury
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We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what…
— Ray Bradbury
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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in…
— Ray Bradbury
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God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness…
— Marquis de Sade
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
— Horace
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I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools…
— Bob Fosse
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I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog…
— George R. R. Martin
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Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not…
— Chrysippus
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The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.
— Elvis Costello
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Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason…
— Terry Pratchett
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Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide…
— Orson Scott Card
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to…
— William Hazlitt
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A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like…
— Leonardo Sciascia
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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools…
— Jonathan Swift
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As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do…
— Don DeLillo
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Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
— Duke of Wellington
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If…
— William Blake
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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
— Bob Dylan
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