Quote by Joseph Conrad Download Open image ““There are more kinds of fools than one can guard against.”” — Joseph Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the people you need to concentrate on.” — Robert Strauss Copy Share Image
“Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I love fools who don't know they are fools but hate fools that know they are.” — Hmedon Copy Share Image
“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.” — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage-who can tell?-but truth-truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder-the man know, and can look on without a wink. But he must at… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world; it was work undertaken for the same reason as the work in potteries, in coal mines, in fields, in tool-grinding shops. It was labour, whose practical difference from the other forms of labour consisted in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share