Quotes on Fool

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

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

Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell_x000D_ And I feel like I'm comin' home.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.