A Quotes
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“A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“A fool is one who sees the facts, knows the truth, but still believes the lies.”
“A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit.
[Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]”
“A fool is only a fool until he keeps his foolishness with him. When he starts influencing others, he is no longer foolish. He is now dangerous.”
Source: Quantraz
“A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.”
“A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.”
“A fool is very dangerous when in power.”
“A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.”
Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
“A fool knows not whom to fear.”
“A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.”
“A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
“A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.”
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.”
Source: Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.
“A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.”
“A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.”
Source: King of Thorns
“A fool must now and then be right, by chance”
“A fool need not be the fool that he has chosen to be. But I would think him to be a fool if he chose to continue to be so.”
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.”
“A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
“A fool provokes a formidable enemy, then screams, 'Rescue me before he destroys me!”
“A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.”
Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series
“A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue, and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.”
“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.”
“A fool’s plans are entertainment for the wise.”
“A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.”
Source: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.”
“A Fool
Stands at an akimbo,
Head swollen disproportionately.
Loquacious.
Boastful.
But he is an empty barrel
That talks an infinite deal of nonsense.
He is a fool.
He is naked;
But he discerns it not.
He is shallow -
Lacking depth and sound judgment.
But he thinks he is full, complete.
He is a fool.
Wisdom makes a defining shout,
But he hearkens not.
Correction drums violently into his ears,
But all he hears is an applause
From an orchestra of his sycophants.
He is a fool.
He casts contemptuous glances at discretion.
He sees with one eye,
Tainted by arrogance.
His only hearing ear
Is fitted with impervious filter of pride.
He is a fool.”
“A fool stumbles when he walks; the wise are not hampered even when they run.”
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.”
“A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.”
“A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.”
Source: THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS & Other Adventure Stories (7 Action-Packed Titles in One Volume): Gripping Tales of Dangerous Exploits, Mysteries & Espionage Intrigue: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Midwinter, Prester John, A Prince of the Captivity, Salute to Adventurers, The Path of the King...
“A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.”
“A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.”
“A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.”
Source: Minority Report
“A fool will blame his mother for a failed relationship; the simple will cry my dad didn't teach me!”
“A fool will close his eyes to make the world blind”
“A fool will know right and wrong, but he's the one who decided to be a fool.”
Source: The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
“A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday”
“A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.”
“A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.”
Source: The Story of the Stone
“A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains but no heart. I am one and, you are the other, and therefore both of us suffer, both of us are unhappy.”
Source: The Idiot
“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
“A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.”
“A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!”
“A fool with a tool is still a fool.”
“A fool with a tool still remains a fool.”
“A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.”
“A fool won't lose the opportunity to drag you into a pointless argument.”
Source: Quantraz