Fools

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense

A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.