Fools Quotes

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Fools are without number.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

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

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.