Fool Quotes

“The best way to fool someone is to make them believe that you actually said something.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Talking about doing great things and not actually doing them makes a mockery of great things and a fool of the person who’s doing all the talking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A late shine is a predicted short time.”
― Ben Jr Grey

“Millions of fools are over the age of 50.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Better to be seen as a fool while you are wise; than people to think you are wise while you are a fool.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Never fool yourself into believing that your agenda is sufficiently worthy to somehow justify the manipulation of the people whom you wish to impose it upon.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some fools have children. Some have children who have children. And some have children who have children who have children.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“How many times am I chasing something similar to a rabbit in that I deny the disparity of speed that exists between me and that which I’m chasing?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The real fool is the one who says that he can’t be fooled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The best way to engage the fool is to do nothing that would cause them to believe that we are otherwise. For then, the fool becomes the fooled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Tell me that prayer is a fool’s errand and I will tell you that the fool is the one who doesn’t understand the errand.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The vast majority of those who deem some people fools because they are fooled by their political leaders are themselves fooled by their religious leaders. And vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ignoring a fool could be dangerous, it can hurt his ego. Better avoid him.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“I loved you all my life," he said. "Now ain't I a fool?”
― Allie Ray, Holler

“He could imagine his father kicked back in his seat, a disapproving frown set under his heavy mustache; That boy is a fool. Junior wasn't a boy, but he was sure he was a fool, married to a woman who wouldn't even love him if it was up to her, and who wouldn't dance with him besides.”
― Allie Ray, Children of Promise

“Fool’s ambition blinds his conscience whereas the wise’s only aim is goodness.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“If it looks like a skunk and walks like a skunk, it’s probably a skunk. And if I live in denial of that reality, the stench of my denial is going to cover me for a long time. But the greatest denial of all is to believe that I don’t stink.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Stubbornness is determination stripped of wisdom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To relentlessly declare that something doesn’t work is often a manifestation of our discomfort regarding the fact that it actually does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hollow is the head of a fool. And everyone who listens only to the echoes bouncing in his skull, believing them true, is doubly a fool. Yet these echoes are all we ever hear. Beliefs feeding into beliefs, mindless as serpents devouring their own tail.”
― Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing

“The greatest athletes aren’t interested in the greatest risks. I mean, sometimes they’re taken, sometimes not, but those physical risks are a by-product of a much deeper desire to take creative risks. Don’t be fooled by the danger. In action and adventure sports, creativity is always the point.”
― Steven Kotler, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

“We are fooled by the winners because survivor bias distorts our thinking. Survivor bias has been defined as “a logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not.” In other words, we fail to learn from the non-survivors, those who have lost. This tendency to focus on the winners is understandable. We are fooled by the winners because the winners, whether people, objects, data, or ships that return safely to port, are often easier to observe. But in many instances, we can derive as much or even more insight from those who have lost.”
― David Lockwood

“Abraham Wald pointed out how even the best minds of the US military can be fooled by the winners. His analysis showed that a careful study of survivors can tell us a lot about the non-survivors, who are sometimes difficult or impossible to observe. Most importantly, he demonstrated that we should pay close attention to both survivors and non-survivors before drawing conclusions.”
― David Lockwood

“We are fooled by the winners because the winners can rewrite history.”
― David Lockwood

“No fool stays in power for years on end when there are so many generals, sons, and wives waiting in the wings to launch a coup.”
― Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future

“I am convinced of that after spending almost all my adult and professional years in a fierce fight between my brain (not Fooled by Randomness) and my emotions (completely Fooled by Randomness) in which the only success I’ve had is in going around my emotions rather than rationalizing them.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By Randomness & The Black Swan: Two Books In One

“The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus’ adage “For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“...but certainly this country--this society--are not meant for such a man as him. A man called lord, probably from boyhood; Murphy believes America could make him a fool.”
― Allie Ray, Suffering Fools