Fool Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A fool finds a greater fool to admire him.

— Ace Kid

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

— Anonymous

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“A wise man will not trust too much those who admire him, even for his wisdom. He knows that an admirer is never truly…

— Ben Hecht

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

— Benjamin Disraeli

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned…

— Edmund Burke

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his…

— Blaise Pascal

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

— Louis Walsh

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his…

— Owen Feltham