Fools

24 quotes.

• A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

  William Shakespeare

• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

  Mark Twain

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

  Attributed to Abraham Lincoln

• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

  Dale Carnegie

• As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  Jonathan Swift

• Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.

  Albert Einstein

• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

  Anonymous

• Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

  Benjamin Franklin

• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  Alexander Pope

• Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

  Karl Marx to his housekeeper

• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Old Chinese saying

• I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.

  Edgar Allan Poe

• If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

  Claudia Young

• It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

  Edsel Murphy

• Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

  Anonymous

• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

• Silence is the virtue of fools.

  Francis Bacon

• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

  Doug Larson

• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Herbert Spencer

• There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.

  Niven's Law #16

• There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.

  Jacob M. Braude

• To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

  Anonymous

• Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

  Samuel Palmer

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