(282 quotes found)
“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”
Alice Walker
“Yes,' said Winnie-the-Pooh. 'I see now,' said Winnie-the-Pooh. 'I have been Foolish and Deluded,' said he, 'and I am a Bear of no Brain at All.”
Winnie the Pooh
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots”
Karl Kraus
“By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed”
African Proverb
“Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.”
Anton Chekhov
“Good nature without prudence, is foolishness”
Proverb
“A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness”
Malayan Proverb
“Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.”
Turkish Proverb
“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
“Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.”
Louis Binstock