Famous Quotes on Fools and Foolishness

Famous Quotes on Fools and Foolishness

• Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

• You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

• The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

• Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

• Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.