Capable Quote by Larry Niven Download Open image “The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.” — Larry Niven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Fool Foolishness Protect
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools. — William Penn Copy Share Image
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Fools are those who dont listen to the wise. Wise are those who dont listen to the fools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer. Nessus whistled.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“have precious little free will," he was saying. "We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“1a) Never throw shit at an armed man. 1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?" He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.” — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a… — John Taylor Copy Share Image