Quotes on Fool

This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

In all I wish, how happy should I be,_x000D_ _x000D_ Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee?_x000D_ _x000D_ So weak thou art that fools thy power despise;_x000D_ _x000D_ And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.