Top 100 The Fool Who Quotes
#1. The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
Gautama Buddha
#2. It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.
Gautama Buddha
#3. It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others - playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
Robert Greene
#4. ... the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.
Thomas Fuller
#5. Shut up!" Finn turned, furious. "Look at you both! The only friends I have in this hell and all you can do is fight over me. Do either of you care about me? Not the seer, the fighter, the fool who takes all the risks, but me, Finn?
Catherine Fisher
#6. The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. Pity the fool who has the good fortune to fall for you,
Marie Force
#8. The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.
Garth Brooks
#9. Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#10. The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.
Ramakrishna
#11. Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.
Gordon Lightfoot
#12. The fool who knows his folly
Becomes wise by that fact.
But the fool who thinks he's wise -
He's called 'a fool' indeed!
Anonymous
#14. Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
#15. No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
Pete Townshend
#16. Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.
Eddie Vedder
#17. It is the fool who declares 'I am ascending the summit,' while he's toddling around in the ditch.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#18. How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.
Gautama Buddha
#19. Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
Jacoby Shaddix
#20. Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
ABD- RU-SHIN
#22. The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#23. A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.
Paulo Coelho
#24. No worse bargain was ever made than the fool who traded friends for gold.
Shae Ford
#25. There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
Otto Von Bismarck
#26. Papa-Lo start thinking too deep and start thinking that he should be more than what he is. He's the worst kind of fool, the fool who start believing things can get better.
Marlon James
#27. The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
#28. The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.
Rashi
#29. We all remember the fool who, almost alone, was true to Lear, but, then, of course, he was a fool.
William Shakespeare
#30. The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Paulo Coelho
#31. Who you pretends you is, you comes to be. The nigger that bows to the Master on the street, who acts the fool, who forgets who he am, that man a slave. He shuts his bible, he deserves to be a slave
Donald McCaig
#32. Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
Jennifer Melzer
#33. It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs
#34. Who's the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?
George Lucas
#35. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
Gautama Buddha
#36. Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it's you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#38. Cause you know that its a fool, who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder ...
- The Beatles
The Beatles
#39. I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.
Elizabeth Kostova
#40. The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#41. He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
#42. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
#43. I hated him for not being depressed. He seemed a fool
everyone who didn't feel like me was a fool. I alone knew the truth about life, knew that it was all a miserable downward spiral that you could either admit to or ignore, but sooner or later we were all going to die.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#45. He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.
Brigham Young
#46. The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you. How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#47. Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real ... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand ...
Harold Bell Wright
#48. To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
Hunter S. Thompson
#50. The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
Honore De Balzac
#51. To expect that men who do not honorably and intelligently conduct their private affairs will honorably and intelligently conduct the affairs of the community is to be a fool.
Ambrose Bierce
#52. Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.
Dewitt Bodeen
#53. A fool is someone who enjoys calling other people crazy before they check out their own insanity in the mirror ... first.
Timothy Pina
#54. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
Charles Bukowski
#55. A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#56. And who but Allah could have used a fool like President Bush to remove Saddam, the man who had been the greatest obstacle to the rightful domination of the Persian Gulf by the Persian people? Indeed, who but Allah could have drawn Iran's greatest enemy into the perfect trap?
Phillip Oliver Otts
#57. Not that he was a fool. No, the book was full of insight. Disturbing insight. The Lord Mistborn advocated gathering the Metalborn who were elderly or terminally ill, then asking them to sacrifice themselves to make these ... spikes, which could in turn be used to create individuals of great power.
Brandon Sanderson
#58. Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Alec Guinness
#59. Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.
Ayn Rand
#60. Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool ... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
Bertolt Brecht
#61. Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.
Richard Dawkins
#62. Programmers are like magicians who fool everyone into thinking they are perfect and never wrong, but it's all an act. They make mistakes all the time.
Zed A. Shaw
#63. He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Solomon
#64. There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.
Mark Steyn
#65. The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society, the collective has no soul; the soul belongs to the individual. Hence, those who belong to the collective are destroying every possibility of being souls.
Rajneesh
#66. Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
Anderson Cooper
#67. He who controls the fools gold, controls the fools.
Orrin Woodward
#68. A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
Arthur Golden
#69. My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.
Joseph Hunter
#70. Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!
Josemaria Escriva
#71. Any man who undertakes to write a play is either a damned fool or a hero, I don't know which. When you write a book, you pull it out of the typewriter and that's that. When you write a play you've got to go on with the producer and the director and the actors and the rehearsals and the ...
Rex Stout
#72. 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.
Chanakya
#73. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
Armistead Maupin
#74. Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.
R.A. Torrey
#75. Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
Marianne Williamson
#76. Any fool who can pucker is apt to whistle past the graveyard.
Stephen King
#77. Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
Robert A. Heinlein
#78. People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]
Edward Abbey
#79. In the dining room, my brother - the scholar - was asking my father what it meant, amadan. My father said, "A fool. It means someone's a fool." Even with the water running, the cup of soapy water at my lips, I could hear my father's shout of laughter when my brother asked him, "Who is?
Alice McDermott
#80. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
Voltaire
#81. Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.
Orson Scott Card
#82. It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.
Harry Bates Thayer
#83. What does a fool who doesn't see the worth of others see in himself?
C.M. Stunich
#84. Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.
Chris Rock
#85. The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#86. A fool's a man who knows better and does the thing anyway, his father's voice said.
Peter V. Brett
#87. The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
Marquis De Sade
#88. The words of Jim Elliot were true: He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#89. A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life's cruel trick.
Natalia Jaster
#90. Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.
Dwight Yoakam
#91. It's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.
Fanny Kemble
#92. You know Case, who oversees the dairy? He saw us together in the loft last week. He says I'm the biggest fool who ever lived. I don't think he's right. But, just to be safe, I'll put out the lamp. We'll pretend we're the ancient explorers, and find our way by the stars.
Yours,
Kai
Diana Peterfreund
#93. Is he about to become that man, that modern fool of a certain age, who finds himself pausing by shop windows to stare in at the saxophones or the motorbikes, or driven to find himself a mistress of his daughter's age?
Ian McEwan
#94. He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.
Samuel Tuke
#95. You're a fool," Quinhelm accused. "Any man who would allow himself to be bewitched by a woman needs a good dunking in a cold barrel of water." (Quinhelm, the wizard, from BRIGGEN)
Ann B. Keller
#96. The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
Euripides
#97. The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Confucius
#98. Do you think someone someone who'd sacrifice himself so easily, is worth as the same as the life someone so precious?
In other words, you consider her an absolute fool who would try to protect a worthless trash as yourself.
CLAMP
#99. That's why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you're doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that's the real reason you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be.
Michael Oher
#100. The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
William Osler
