Fool Quotes

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.