Fools - Quotes and Proverbs

Here are some proverbs and quotes about fools.

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One must be a little foolish, if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Michel de Montaigne

Penny wise, pound foolish.

This refers to someone who is careful about spending small amounts of money, but not careful about spending large amounts.

People don't think and thus get fooled by priests and Trumpalikes.

Minkukel

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Richard Dawkins

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Bruce Lee

Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly inreconcilable truths -- that war is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly.

Barack Obama

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Wives and Daughters

Statler: Hey old fool, you slept through the show!
Waldorf: Who's a fool, you watched it!

(unknown author)
Source: The Muppet Show

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Josh Billings

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

(unknown author)

The foolish slogans of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him.

The idea of marrying a doll or a fool was always abhorrent to me. I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find a lump of wax and wood laid in my bossom, a half-idiot clasped in my arms, and to remember that I had made of this my equal - nay, my idol - to know that I must pass the rest of my dreary life with a creature incapable of understanding what I said, of appreciating what I thought, or of sympathising with what I felt!

Charlotte Brontë
Source: The Professor
Quoted: William Crimsworth

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Benjamin Franklin

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Herbert Spencer
English Philosopher (1820-1903)

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Bible

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Heinrich Heine

There is no fool like an old fool.

To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly.

William Scott Downey

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

Daniel Dennett