Example Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not…

— Alexander Pope

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets…

— Voltaire

The fool doesn't think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

— Babloo

The fool don't think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

— William Shakespeare

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

— Sharon Tate

But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver…

— William Alfred Quayle

“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact. But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!”

— Anonymous

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

— Gautama Buddha

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool..

— William Shakespeare