Quotes having the keyword Fools
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.
by Charles Spurgeon (Clergyman, British , born in 1834) keywords: deal, fool, fools, great, greater, how, know, knowing, knowledge, many, men, right, use, wisdom , wise In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
by Philip Stanhope (Statesman, British , born in 1694) keywords: certain, degree, fear, fools, great, knaves, majority, mankind, mass, means, must, number, respectable, respected, singly, their, though , too Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.
by Evan Thomaskeywords: always, because, before, come, complete, darkest, dawn, down, drive, fools, go, good, limbaugh, low, make, maybe, moderate, party, rescue, rush, take, them, themselves, then , way People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
by Alice Walker (Author, American , born in 1944) keywords: actually, appear, appearance, avoid, foolish, foolishness, fools, remain, willing , wish Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: brute, cannot, corpses, dead, easier, fools, force, ideas, kill, more, nothing, once, spread, story, than , were Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
by Walt Whitman (Poet, American , born in 1819) keywords: advance, behind, bigots, fools, front, go, new, offer, old, persons, postponed, propositions, stood , which Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
by John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet, American , born in 1807) keywords: bubbles, fall, field, flower, fools, fortune, give, gold, knaves, more, plants, power, rise, sows, than, their, trains , tree But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
by Thornton Wilder (Novelist, American , born in 1897) keywords: alone, among, beings, comes, decide, everybody, fool, fools, human, life, live, moment, must , whether Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
by Thornton Wilder (Novelist, American , born in 1897) keywords: cent, contagion, danger, fools, great, ninety-nine, per, rest, us , world
