Quotes on Fool

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.