Fools Quotes

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.