Fool Quote by Neil Gaiman

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

— Harper Lee

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

— Aristotle

“Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet…

— Samuel Beckett

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

— George Eliot

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

— Cato the Elder

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

— Publilius Syrus

“For to-day I take or give; For to-day I drink and live; For to-day I beg or borrow; Who knows about the silent morrow?”

— Lew Wallace

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all.…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Fool, he tells himself. She’s not here. She was never here. It was imagination and wishful thinking, nothing but that. Resign yourself. He can’t…

— Margaret Atwood

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

— Tom Wolfe

When the fool knows when to be silent, he would be sitting among the wise.

— Vikrant Parsai

“A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.”

— Roy T. Bennett

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn…

— John D. MacDonald

He who knows nothing knows enough if he knows how to be silent.

— Vikrant Parsai