Top 100 Fooled Quotes
#1. Don't be fooled by the few red or brown leaves you find on poison ivy in the fall - the plant is not dying; it's just cheating with different pigments.
Hope Jahren
#2. And if you had the right sort of mind, the sort of mind that actually sees what it looks at, you might notice that his eyes were odd. If your mind had the rare talent of not being fooled by its own expectations, you might notice something else about them, something strange and wonderful.
Patrick Rothfuss
#3. An admonishment of sorts, the gentle warning of one who arrived on an earlier ship: You there! Listen! Independence and resilience. This is what the new immigrant needs. Don't get fooled by all this activity. Don't invoke the superorganism. No, no. One functions alone in America. Begin now.
Abraham Verghese
#4. Don't be fooled by youth. You're old enough to know what experience is good for.
Julie Berry
#5. The devil has successfully fooled many churches, convincing them to follow the world. Biblical standards have been compromised by convenient social theories.
Billy Graham
#7. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.
Euripides
#9. I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#10. Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others.
Benjamin Hoff
#11. A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.
Raymond Chandler
#12. I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart
for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until adoration becomes the music of their soul until they don't have to be fooled with and entertained and amused. Jesus Christ is everything, all-in-all.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#13. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Baldwin
#14. Someone who doesn't know anything about the ways of the horse could be fooled into thinking the approach is all cosmic or mystical. It's not. Anybody can do it who has a passion to do it and has put in enough time. These people are horsemen and horsewomen, not whisperers.
Buck Brannaman
#15. Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.
Elizabeth Warren
#16. I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.
Jerry Andrus
#17. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
#18. One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Moliere
#19. I'll pretend to be anyone or anything other than myself, but the problem is that no one is ever fooled.
Leila Sales
#20. I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -that history is a protective armor against being misled.
Howard Zinn
#21. You always sound like you're coping pretty well on the phone."
"Don't be fooled. I have to maintain at least some shred of dignity. It's all a front for you.
Cherrie Lynn
#22. Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.
Amitav Ghosh
#23. Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
Charles Richards
#24. A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
Edmondo De Amicis
#25. Please, I thought. Don't be fooled. Look inside my eyes and see the difference. It's our only chance.
Please, Paul. Know me.
And he did. He did.
Claudia Gray
#26. It is a terrifying thing when the animals laugh at the hunter. Take a tip from Harlequin and the Joker. If you imitate a fool well, you are not likely to be fooled by others. To be it bluntly, albeit unorginally: A fool who knows he is a fool is indeed a wise man.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#27. Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.
Theodor Adorno
#28. Kids are not fooled when we try to cover up inequality. They will divide a cookie precisely in half. They're the most conscientious people in the world that way.
Sofia Samatar
#29. Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.
Louise Bourgeois
#30. A grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.
Frank O'Connor
#32. Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled
Dan Quayle
#33. I've never been fooled by the romantic, grand gestures. Love is all about the little things, the everyday considerations, kindnesses, and pardons.
Sarah McCoy
#34. Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .
Miya Yamanouchi
#35. You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.
Jonathan King
#37. Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
Abraham Lincoln
#38. Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do.
John Updike
#39. Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.
John Bradshaw
#40. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret ... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.
Christopher Priest
#41. Now is the time ... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.
Ron Atchison
#42. Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.
Pope Benedict XVI
#43. When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#45. Be a fool for love, but don't be fooled by your love.
Alloy Francis
#47. The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
John Buchanan Robinson
#48. Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.
N. T. Wright
#49. Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
Kurt Vonnegut
#50. Time in the heart and sequence in the brain
Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine.
And let us then take godhead by the neck
And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.
Conrad Aiken
#51. People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
Perry Como
#52. You know, sometimes, very innocently, you can develop a sort of fascination with a man, and then you see all these little signs that actually don't mean anything, but it's too late because you're reading in them exactly what you want to read. Be careful, is all I'm saying. It's easy to get fooled.
Emily Croy Barker
#53. You do realize that I never thought you had a stellar
reputation." Her teasing tone made me smile.
"What? You didn't think I was next in line for Pope? Damn, I thought I had you fooled.
Abbi Glines
#54. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
Julius Rosenwald
#55. The wind blows wild and i may move, politicians lie and i am not fooled you don't need a razor or a three piece suit to argue the truth
Brett Dennen
#56. The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.
Darwin Ortiz
#57. Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.
Sakyong Mipham
#58. I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and not to their own fear. Imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they prefer you dirty and smiling.
Ani DiFranco
#59. I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.
Lonnie Donegan
#60. Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word "clean" takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don't be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.
Sean Lennon
#61. Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
Robert Kennedy
#62. God isn't fooled by mercenary goodness I told myself and went back to manic smiling.
Janice Galloway
#63. When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
Beth Ditto
#64. She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she'd always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.
Teresa Medeiros
#65. I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
Eddie Van Halen
#66. Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.
Ernie Els
#67. When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.
Shunryu Suzuki
#68. There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
George W. Bush
#69. Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
Helen Rowland
#70. The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
Michael Moore
#71. To dream only of what is 'possible' is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#72. The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.
Frederick Lenz
#73. Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.
Anton Chekhov
#74. I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
Charles C. Finn
#75. You didn't ask for a priest." "Whether I've been good or bad, I don't think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.
Ken Follett
#76. We've fooled around. I guess he's kind of a fuck buddy."
"Fuck buddy?"
"Oh, you don't know that term? Well, it's a friend-"
"You don't have to explain. It's vividly self-explanatory.
Marshall Thornton
#77. Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#78. When you live by understanding, you will not be fooled any longer
Sunday Adelaja
#79. 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#80. I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about."
"I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between that and 'I don't know what you're talking about.'"
Dimitri sighed.
Richelle Mead
#81. It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.
Polly Horvath
#83. Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a pitch fork, Satan would love for you to think of him as a harmless cartoon character, but don't be fooled ... Satan is anything but harmless.
David Jeremiah
#84. Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he doesn't, you won't be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. Don't be fooled by the many books on complexity or by the many complex and arcane algorithms you find in this book or elsewhere. Although there are no textbooks on simplicity, simple systems work and complex don't.
Jim Gray
#86. It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs
#87. I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Stephen Fry
#88. Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell
Drake
#89. Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.
Mason Cooley
#90. Love is like a magic trick
You know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in line
And pay to see it again and again.
Yarro Rai
#91. I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
Bill Cosby
#92. Success isn't something you have, it's something you do. Don't be fooled into taking shortcuts, they always lead to a dead-end. Instead, establish a goal, make a plan, and take purposeful action. Those who experience success are those who live it; those who earn it.
Steve Maraboli
#93. You guys think you fooled me in the beginning," she rasps. "You were only fooling yourself.
Nyrae Dawn
#94. If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous
and it is.
Anne Lamott
#96. I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.
Julia Stiles
#97. Beauty isn't visible; I don't know why people think it is. Perhaps because at times there are physical manifestations suggesting beauty exists in a person, but don't be fooled. Beauty isn't the packaging, it's the treasure wrapped up inside.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#98. It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times
Munia Khan
#99. They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.
Theodore Sturgeon
#100. It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
Heath Ledger
