Fool Quotes

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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

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.

A fool suffers, thinking, 'I have children! I have wealth!' One's self is not even one's own. How then are children? How then is wealth.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

I shall live here in the rains, there in winter, elsewhere in summer, muses the fool, not aware of the nearness of death.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

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

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

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

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

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.

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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