Fool Quotes - page 48

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him. (William Faulkner)
Silence is the best answer to a fool. View quote
Nnedi Okorafor
What was crucial to the partnership, it should be noted, is that Flavor Flav was a clown - in the tradition of the best black comics - yet he was a clown with consciousness, empowered with knowledge of self, an entirely different persona from the "Stepin Fetchit" and "Sambo" stereotypes of subservient and uncouth black Americans. Flavor Flav was and is a fool, but a fool on a mission. On the cover of Nation of Millions, he wears a gigantic clock as a medallion - a preposterous getup - yet it is designed to illustrate, through a comic medium, that time is indeed running out. View quote
Flavor Flav
We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science. View quote
Richard Feynman
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love. View quote
Jack Nicholson
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us. View quote
Stephen King
He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. View quote
William Drummond of Logiealmond
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips; The laughter sets him free. A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries. The Fool is me! View quote
Ray Bradbury
If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I'm not educated I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated) View quote
Bob Marley
Don't Let them fool ya or even try to school ya. (Bob Marley)
He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions. View quote
Daniel Defoe
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. View quote
Carl Sagan
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. View quote
Jonathan Swift
You have but a very few years to be young and handsome in the eyes of the world; and as few months ro be so in the eyes of a husband, who is not a fool;.. View quote
Jonathan Swift
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. View quote
Boris Pasternak
I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult. View quote
Penn Jillette
The selfish smiling fool, & the sullen, frowning fool shall both thought wise, that they may be a rod. View quote
William Blake
I care not whether a man is good or evil all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go put off holiness, And put on intellect. View quote
William Blake
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science. View quote
William Blake
You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody. (U. G. Krishnamurti)
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. View quote
Alice James
The fool always carries them, although he has long since forgotten what they mean. Nevertheless they belong to him, even though he does not know their use. View quote
P. D. Ouspensky
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. View quote
John W. Campbell
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. View quote
Pauline Kael