309 Quotes About Fools

Fools fulfill the worst part of prophecies in books they've never read, and in schools of thought they don't believe in.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

Very few things make a fool feel smart better than negotiating.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.