Fool Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fool Foolishness Inspirational Mankind
We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. — Michael Reed Copy Share Image
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed…If I have brought… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it — WC Fields Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
