Top 25 Fool Quotes of 1413 - Page 15

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Tongue, Fool

Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.383

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

Ignorant, Fool, Consolation

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Arrogance, Fool, Pseudo

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1815, Random House

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Giving, Information, Fool

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1705, Random House

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

Muhammad Asad

Men, Foolish, Ifs

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

Marlon Brando

Long, Fool, Hills

There is no fool like an educated fool.

Margaret Atwood

Fool, Educated, Educated Fools

Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.73, Anchor

It`s acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they`re considered aggressive and opinionated.

Madeline Kahn

Men, Trying, Fool

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Longchenpa

Practice, Path, Fool

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

John Ford

Fool, Opinion, Busy

1633 ' Tis Pity She's a Whore, act 5, sc.3.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Jean de La Fontaine

Imagination, Fool, Opinion

"Clymène". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, V, 54, 1671.

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.]

Jean de la Bruyere

Believe, Men, Fool

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Herodotus

Useless, Foolish, Outrage

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

Harry A. Blackmun

Fool, Clients, Lawyer