Fool Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fool Human nature Humans Nature Wisdom Wise
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
The fool doesn't think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — Babloo Copy Share Image
The fool don't think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare 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 fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon 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
