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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubts.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

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

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.