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The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

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.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Fortune, that favors fools.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.