Quotes Tagged "fools"

For some reason all activity, all happiness on the part of other people made me feel like vomiting. I was aware that my own life was finished and was slowly and painfully guttering out. What earthly reason had I to concern myself with the lives of the fools, the rabble-people who were fit and healthy, ate well, slept well, and copulated well and who had never experienced a particle of my sufferings or felt the wings of death every minute brushing against their faces?

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Look, let me just say it: Just because some of you see them as 'Devotees' instead of 'Blind Devotees' that literally doesn't reflect their fondness for, kindness, love, generosity, and empathy for others. And may Almighty God help you poor souls, who easily end up believing whatever those idiots forward you on a daily basis.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

always fear fools not because of they are wise just to save your time.

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

Fools are bereaft of knowledge. Their ideas are like castle built in the air.

I don't know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

Only a fool believes that nature's only purpose is to serve and obey.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Some fools are educated, rich, and/or famous.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

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