Be Fool Quotes

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

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.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

Only a genius can play a fool.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

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

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot